NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was created in 1987.
Paul Margolies has written: 'Always remember' -- subject(s): NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Patients, AIDS (Disease), Biography, Fashion designers
The world will never know it started millions of years ago and might never end. __ Cleve Jones came up with the idea of a quilt: The Quilt was conceived in November of 1985 by long-time San Francisco gay rights activist Cleve Jones. Since the 1978 assassinations of gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, Jones had helped organize the annual candlelight march honoring these men. While planning the 1985 march, he learned that over 1,000 San Franciscans had been lost to AIDS. He asked each of his fellow marchers to write on placards the names of friends and loved ones who had died of AIDS. At the end of the march, Jones and others stood on ladders taping these placards to the walls of the San Francisco Federal Building. The wall of names looked like a patchwork quilt. Inspired by this sight, Jones and friends made plans for a larger memorial. A little over a year later, he created the first panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt in memory of his friend Marvin Feldman. In June of 1987, Jones teamed up with Mike Smith and several others to formally organize the NAMES Project Foundation. From "About The AIDS Memorial Quilt" website.
The web address of the Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project is: http://www.nequiltmuseum.org
Quilt in a Day was created in 1978.
The phone number of the Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project is: 978-452-4207.
The Coffin Quilt was created in 1999-10.
Patches from the Quilt was created on 2008-07-08.
National Quilt Museum was created in 1991.
A quilt can be a fun project for kids, especially if you let them design one or two 'patches' of it. You can give them the fabric and let them use fabric paint to make a design and help them sew it to the quilt.
The address of the Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project is: 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA 01852-1820
How to Make an American Quilt was created on 1995-10-06.
Great Lakes Quilt Center was created in 1885.