Adrian Apollo, Week 3 Exhibition Work Plan, Source #2

 


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 memorial quilt (display quilt, accept new quilt panels and incorporate them into new blocks of the quilt)

  • Honor the dead and force people to see the devastation caused by the disease

  • Find a way to grieve together and find the weapon that would break through bigotry and indifference 

  • Largest Work of collaborative art in the world

  • Medium to visualize the numbers lost to AIDS and humanize the threat of AIDS

  • Tool for social change, humanize disease from “Gay Plague” or drug addict disease quilt raised 250,000 dollars for AIDS related organizations in 1989, nominated for nobel peace prize 

  • October 1996, 1.2 million people visited quilt in Washington 

  • Covered National Mall from Washington monument to grounds of US Capitol Building 

  • Partners in seven different countries 

  • Project granted the “Save America’s Treasures” Federal Grant in 2005, recognized as America’s historic legacy  

Visual media to utilize: 

  • Images of recent quilt squares or recent quilt projects, how do the squares differ now that technology has improved?

  • Images of people working on quilt, videos of people working on quilts, quilting bee footage 

  • Image of Harvey Milk memorial that inspired quilt if I can find it, would be nice to see what inspired it 

  • Image of quilt crew, crew for the quilt tour, show community built for quilt and displaying it, greater purpose 

  • Images of displays now, preserving quilt 

How will this be displayed?/Key Points of Information for this Week: 

I would like to synthesize any additional key information here that I have not already gathered from previous sources. Along with this, it would be great if I could look into recent quilt squares, recent quilt displays for exhibitions, and any future plans for the quilt. This information helps us visualize the community built through the quilt, and the efforts that went into preserving it. 


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