Evansville, IN – Monday through Friday from February 26 through March 9, a sexual assault survivor art installation titled “What Were You Wearing?†will be on display in the Bower-Suhrheinrich Visual Arts Center at Ivy Tech Community College. Outfits featured have been recreated from the stories of student survivors.
Open free to the public on Monday through Friday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., the Center is located in room 107 on the Evansville campus.
According to Renee Rockers, mental health counselor, the installation asks participants to understand that it was never about the clothing. “The act of shedding those clothes is never enough to bring peace or comfort to survivors of sexual assault. The violation is not simply woven into the fabric of the material, it is a part of the survivor’s new narrative. Instead, it requires all to evaluate what enabled us as individuals, and as a society, to ask, ‘What were you wearing?’ in the first place.â€
Support from the Ivy Tech Counseling Office or Albion Fellows Bacon Center will be available at the viewing from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. each day.
