Pandemic Quilt

Credit: Mary Andrus During the 2022-2023 academic school year Art for Social Change and the Art Therapy Department hosted a series of sewing circles virtually, on campus and in the community. Our intention was to create multiple quilts to represent how the pandemic had exacerbated and brought to light longstanding and detrimental effects injustice, inequity and oppression in the United States.

Our collective voices will stitch together our stories and lived experiences, raising critical consciousness of the inequities felt across racial, social, political, economic and cultural differences.

Our past events include:

  • Presented at an ASC Open Studio with the campus’ Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative on campus.
  • In partnership with Bag&Baggage Theatre and 350.org we displayed squares as part of the Climate Change play series.
  • We hosted weekly virtual sessions to create art together in our Art for Social Change Open Studio.
  • We are planning a regional Art Therapy Symposium where we intend to display some of the quilts to the public.
  • Art for Social Change participated in the Ray Warren Ethnic Studies symposium to display pandemic quilts and moderate an art therapy sewing circle.

Past Events

October 31, 2024

Vision Quilt and Art for Social Change Open Studio

The Art for Social Change committee will be meeting in person with Cathy DeForest of Vision Quilt to receive training on creating quilt panels designed to help prevent gun violence.

October 26, 2024

We Are Here Community Exhibition

WE ARE HERE Art Therapy Exhibition 2024

October 12, 2024

We Are Here Community Exhibition

WE ARE HERE Art Therapy Exhibition 2024

Galleries

Pandemic Quilt Get Together

Pandemic Quilt Get Together

Members of Art for Social Change met to work on the Pandemic Quilt on September 8, 2022.
Climate Change Theatre Action

Climate Change Theatre Action

Art for Social Change participated in the Climate Change Theatre Action at Bag&Baggage’s Vault Theatre in Hillsboro. Other participants included 350PDX Washington Team and the Westside Quilters Guild.

Joy & Justice Community Fair

Joy & Justice Community Fair

Art for Social Change set up a table at the 2021 Ray Warren Ethnic Studies Symposium’s Community Fair.
Quilt Square Samples

Quilt Square Samples

Some quilting square samples from Art for Social Change Commitee’s Quilt for Change project.
Quilting For Change - 9/1/2021

Quilting For Change - 9/1/2021

Quilting For Change event on September 1, 2021
Quilting For Change

Quilting For Change

Our first Quilt for Change event happened on August 6, 2021 in a tent by York at the Graduate School at Lewis & Clark College.
How to Make a Quilt Square

How to Make a Quilt Square

Don’t know how to make a quilt square? Read our Zine!