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For many families across Alabama, a memorial quilt is helping them grieve and honor the lives of loved ones taken by violence. Each square on the quilt represents a life. Photos are stitched side by ...
Campaigner Ally van Tillo took charge of the UK-wide project in Edinburgh in the early days of the Aids epidemic in the late ...
The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt has been unveiled at London’s Tate Modern, marking the first time the powerful installation has been shown in a major British gallery.
Each name represented on the AIDS Memorial Quilt is a 3-by-6-foot panel meant to replicate the size of a grave. Health officials first became aware of HIV in 1981.
Columbia College Chicago will display three panels of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt for the public to view starting April 30 and lasting through May 13. The panels, which are part of the ...
Launched in 1985 by Cleve Jones, “The Names Project” started as a few quilt panels bearing the names of 40 men who died of AIDS in Jones’s San Francisco community.
For four decades, it’s been an enduring symbol of the AIDS epidemic. Now a section of the famous National AIDS Memorial Quilt will visit Fort Myers.
Joe Biden made history on World AIDS Day last Sunday by being the first president to display panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the White House’s South Lawn. Biden and others mentioned the ...
They were joined by activist Jeanne White-Ginder. Panels of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt were on display on the lawn behind them as they spoke to guests.
In its entirety, the quilt includes 50,000 panels with more than 110,000 names. The AIDS Memorial Quilt is considered the largest community arts project in the world.