Creative Play Newsletter – Art and Politics
Politics. Don’t stop reading! I promise this newsletter will not veer into policy debates or end with a fundraising request. Instead, I am thinking this month about the ways politics and elections have often inspired creativity. Our current Presidential election is certainly inspiring some impressive TikTok videos, but long before …
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2020 Year in Review
Oof. I don’t need to tell you that 2020 was a crappy year. With all of the stress of the year, the time spent making nothing but masks, and the months when I just couldn’t get motivated to create anything, I feel like I did no quilting this year. But, …
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Memorial Quilts for Mass Shooting Victims Exhibit Open
The latest exhibit of the Victims Quilt Project is now open at Francesca Anderson Fine Art at 56 Adams Street in Lexington, MA. Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11 – 5 PMSunday 12 – 5 PM Opening Reception:Saturday, February 29th, 3 – 6 PM Gallery Talk:Saturday, March 14th, 1 – …
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Victims Quilt – Parkland, FL 2018
As we move into fall and past the back-to-school rush, it’s hard not to think about the most recent school shooting, the shooting in Parkland, Florida on Valentine’s Day. Here is the finished Victims Quilt, memorializing those who died on that day.
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Victims Quilt – Las Vegas 2017
I recently decided to change the way that I am doing the Victims Quilts. Rather than continue to create two enormous, unwieldy quilts that include multiple mass shooting events, I am separating out each event into its own banner. Here is the first, the quilt for the Las Vegas shooting …
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Victims Quilt – Sutherland Springs, 2017
Another long quilt hanging in my stair hall. I’ve finished the Victims Quilt banner for the victims of the Sutherland Springs, Texas church shooting in 2017. The quilt is 16″ wide x 102″ long and contains the names of the 26 people who died that day, including the six members …
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