Kavi Gupta ✕ Jeffrey Gibson: COVID-19 Mask Project

Kavi Gupta is pleased to offer for sale a limited artist’s edition of handmade, cotton masks by Jeffrey Gibson. “We’re living in a time when people should be wearing masks—period. Unforeseen, my tribe, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, has been hit hard by COVID-19. We’re a small tribe based in Central Mississippi. People aren’t able to work or make income. It means a lot to me to be able to raise money to help. The mask itself—whether you’re buying it as an artwork, or buying it to be worn—it’s an object of our time,” says Gibson. 100% of proceeds from mask sales will be donated, split between the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (www.choctaw.org) to aid with COVID-19 critical care response, and to NDN Collective (ndncollective.org), an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building, and narrative change. “When I first started to think about making masks, my first thought was to wo