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  Smithsonian magazine article initial notes: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/aids-memorial-quilt-now-online-180975370/ Display smaller sets of 1,500 squares on each day of two week celebration 1.2 million square foot quilt available online Panels sewn into groups of 8 More than 125,000 people died since 1980 Measure 6’3 feet, size of grave Commemorate International AIDS Conference, held virtually during Covid  Giant mosaic, zoom in to see individual squares or quilt block number, search by keyword  2020/40, share stories from 40 year fight against AIDS  RICE LGBTQ Exhibits Article initial notes:  https://digitalprojects.rice.edu/wrc/Houston-LGBTQ/exhibits/show/names-project/names-project-foundation Names Project Foundation is an international, non-governmental organization Founded in 1987 by group of friends and families in San Francisco (wanted to find a way to remember the lives of their friends and loved ones who died of AIDS) to maintain the AIDS ...

  History of Quilt Article initial notes:  https://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt-history November 1985, Cleve Jones (activist, author, lecturer) Jones organized annual candlelight vigil and march honoring San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, write placards of friends names lost from AIDs, end of march Jones and others stood on ladders taping placards to walls of San Francisco Federal Building, wall of names looked like patchwork quilt, plans for larger memorial based off of this, memorial for those lost to AIDS, help people understand the devastating impact of the disease and the losses suffered  1985 March, over 1,000 San Francisco residents lost to AIDS  NAMES Project AIDs memorial quilt made by friends and loved ones of those lost Marvin Feldman first square, Jones friend, June 1987 Jones teamed up with Mike Smith, Gert McMullin and other to organize the NAMES project foundation Immediate Public response to Quilt, those most affected sent pa...

Research into A Day Without Art, Red Ribbon Project, and Visual Aids:  A Day With(out) Art notes: https://visualaids.org/projects/day-without-art   A Day of Action and Mourning in Response to the AIDS Crisis, December 1st, A Day Without Art 1989, Response to AIDs crisis worsening, coinciding with World Heath Organization’s second annual World AIDs Day on December 1st, Visual AIDs organized first national Day without ARt Curators, writers, and art professionals call for moruning and action in response to crisis, celebrate lives and acheivments of lost colleagues and friends, encourage care and action for AIDS victims, educate the public, find a cure,  More than 800 art organizations, museums, and galleries throughout U.S. participated Shroud works of art and replace them with information about HIV and safer sex, lock doors, dim lights  Produce exhibitions, programs, readings, memorials, rituals, and perfromances Visual AIDS coordinated this netwrok mega-event, by prod...