On June 3 The Bundy Museum in Binghamton, New York opened RETROSPECTIVE: The Art of Phoebe Legere. The Gallery Opening was followed by a Concert in the Bundy Theater featuring original music by Multi-Disciplinary Artist Legere.
NBC and ABC news affiliates carried interviews and features on Phoebe leading up to the Opening.
Watch the News Channel 34 feature here:
Earlier in the day, Phoebe appeared on NPR
"The Heart of the East End," Hosted by Award-Winning Journalist Gianna Volpe:
WLIW-FM 88.3.fm
Listen to the interview here:
https://www.wliw.org/radio/2022/06/03/heart-of-the-east-end-june-3rd-2022/
Phoebe Legere is the first artist and musician to highlight and document the missing Native Women and Girls from North America who have vanished.
“Across the U.S. and Canada, native women and girls are taken, vanishing at an alarming rate,” said Legere.
According to the group, NATIVE HOPE. Org, thousands of women and girls have gone missing in the past few years, but there is No Single Source For Tracing and compiling the data on these cases.
The Urban Indian Health Institute, a research and advocacy organization focused on health in Indigenous communities, found that while the National Crime Information Center tallied nearly 6,000 reports of missing Indigenous women and girls in 2016, only 116 cases had been logged into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, database.
“My series VANISHING WOMEN is dedicated to raising awareness for this horrible, staggering negligence,” said Legere.
To learn more:
Urban Indian Health Institute: U I H I . org
MMIWG Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: nativehope.org
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women: CSVANW.org