Event: Community AIDS Memorial Quilt-Making Workshops
Presented with the School of Visual Arts
Saturday, March 29 & Sunday, March 30, 2025
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About the Event:
On March 29 & 30, 2025, the New York City AIDS Memorial was thrilled to partner for a series of AIDS Memorial Quilt-Making Workshops with the School of Visual Art (SVA), as part of their exhibitions TO LOVE–TO DIE; TO FIGHT. TO LIVE. Art and Activism in the Time of AIDS and Witness, which ran March 20—April 5, 2025. These free and open-to-the-public quilt-making workshops were led by artist Daniele Frazier. During the two-day workshops, the public was invited to observe and participate in the panel-making process. Together, we designed and stitched several new panels honoring the lives of creative New Yorkers and SVA alumni, including Patrick Angus, Ching Ho Cheng, Dan Friedman, Luis Frangella, Bob Guglielmo, Juan Gonzalez, Hugh Steers, Tseng Kwong Chi, Ron Vawter, Martin Wong, and others. Dozens of artists, designers, activists, volunteers, family, and community members joined us and AIDS Memorial Quilt co-founder and conservator Gert McMullin as we engaged in cross-generational conversation, continuing the intention of the activists who first imagined the Quilt—to inform, to share, and to build community.
Support:
Support for the Quilt-Making Workshops was provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Council.
The New York City AIDS Memorial thanks SVA, Materials for the Arts, Maharam, Todd Oldham Studio, and the David Wojnarowicz Foundation for their material and equipment loans and donations.