Pandemic Quilt
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.
Quilt Square Samples
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
Vision Quilt Part 2
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.
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.
Galleries
Pandemic Quilt Get Together
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
Quilt Square Samples
Quilting For Change - 9/1/2021
Quilting For Change
How to Make a Quilt Square
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Art for Social Change
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219