“Forgotten Nation,” Tanesha Spencer’s senior exhibition project at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), is a guerrilla marketing campaign intended to bring awareness to the 5,712 missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States.
For Spencer, the project is vitally important and close to home – and understandably, a challenging topic to research. Spencer, who is Menominee and Oneida, hopes the project will bring more awareness to the thousands of missing Indigenous women and ultimately, help her own and others’ tribes.