A year ago, a new kind of story began in Gothenburg, Sweden, one that had never been told inside a European museum quite that way before. Native Max contributor and co-curator Kelly Holmes helped bring the first Native American fashion exhibition to the National Museums of World Culture, a moment that planted a flag for Indigenous design on an international stage. Today, that flag is still flying, and on April 15, it will move.
Creative director Jeremy Arviso (RVSO78) steps into the helm of SKODEN: From Roots to Runway, a live activation at Världskulturmuseet in Gothenburg that takes everything that the exhibition established and puts it in motion. Literally. This is not a static showcase. It is a collision of Indigenous streetwear, championship hoop dance, contemporary choreography, and cultural conversation, a single evening that refuses to let Indigenous identity be treated as history.
“This is about making something from nothing,” Arviso writes. “Creating without permission. Carrying culture forward through what we wear and how we move.”
SKODEN, the phrase itself a piece of Indigenous internet vernacular meaning let’s go, signals exactly the energy Arviso is bringing to the museum floor. The National Museums of World Culture invited him to shape this moment as Creative Director, and what he has built is a full-spectrum experience: runway activation, live performance, talks, music, and workshops, all housed within the Aw Pa Museet after-work format and organized around a central thesis: that Indigenous culture is not artifact. It is present, evolving, and undeniable.
The Collaborators
Arviso has assembled a team that matches the ambition of the vision. Tierra Alysia, founder of VIVIDUS Runway and a creative force grounded in her Kashia Pomo heritage, joins as a key collaborator. Her work, shown at New York Fashion Week, Vancouver Fashion Week, SWAIA Native Fashion Week, and ComplexCon, has spent years positioning Indigenous fashion within spaces of luxury and cultural authority. At SKODEN, she brings that same insistence: that contemporary Indigenous design belongs not on the margins of global fashion but at its center.
ShanDien LaRance (Sonwaii), a Native American hoop dancer, artist, and instructor representing the Hopi, Tewa, Navajo, and Assiniboine Nations, brings over two decades of international performance experience to the Gothenburg stage. Her credits span Cirque du Soleil’s TOTEM, the White House, and the World Expo in Osaka. Deeply rooted in the teachings of her late brother, world champion hoop dancer Nakotah LaRance, ShanDien’s practice transforms hoop dance into living philosophy, each formation and movement a reflection of the circle’s meaning, the interconnectedness of all things. For many in the audience, it will be their first encounter with this art form. Gothenburg will not forget it.
Movement collaborators RedWall Collective, led by award-winning Gothenburg-based dancer and choreographer Tevin Redvall, complete the lineup. Redvall’s choreographic approach, fluid, multi-disciplinary, shaped by work with Volvo, Red Bull Dance Your Style, and TEDx, transforms the runway from a linear procession into something immersive and alive. When the garments move with RedWall, they are not being modeled. They are being inhabited.
A Year in the Making
The significance of April 15 is sharpened by its anniversary context. Twelve months ago, the National Museums of World Culture became one of the few European institutions to place Native American fashion at the center of a major exhibition, a collaboration that Kelly Holmes helped shape from the ground up, bringing Indigenous design into a dialogue with international audiences that rarely encounter it outside of stereotyped representations. That exhibition asked the question: what does Indigenous fashion look like when Indigenous people control the narrative?
SKODEN is Arviso’s answer, and it expands the question. Where the first exhibition established presence, SKODEN insists on vitality. Street style, DIY culture, creative resistance: the subtitle of the evening is not incidental. It is a reminder that the most powerful thing Indigenous designers have always done is refuse the terms offered to them and build their own.
From Roots to Runway is more than a tagline. It is a lineage claim, one that runs from generational knowledge through contemporary streetwear, from the ceremonial circle of hoop dance through the choreographed energy of a Gothenburg collective, from a co-curated exhibition in 2025 to a live, breathing activation in 2026. The roots are deep. The runway is now.
Tickets are available through the National Museums of World Culture. Gothenburg; SKODEN.
