What Were You Wearing: Survivor Art Installation

Monday, October 20, 2025
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
CSU Art Gallery

As a part of Domestic Violence Prevention & Awareness Month, the Violence Awareness & Response Program (VARP) and Peer Educators Acting for Change and Equality (PEACE) are hosting the “What Were You Wearing?” Art Installation. Observed since 2013 across different campuses and institutions, the Installation asks participants to understand that it was never about the clothing and the act of shedding those clothes is never enough to bring peace or comfort to survivors. The violation is not simply woven in to the fabric of the material, it is a part of the survivor's new narrative. If only ending sexual violence was as easy as changing our clothes. Instead, it requires all of us to evaluate what enabled us as individuals and as a society to ask, “what were you wearing?” in the first place.