The NAMES AIDS Memorial Quilt Project, often abbreviated with the AIDS Memorial Quilt, is a large blanket made as a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. Weighing about 54 tonnes, this is the largest folk art work in the world by 2016.
Video NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
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The idea for the NAMES Memorial Quilts Project was conceived in 1985 by AIDS activist Cleve Jones during the wax parade, as a memorial to the 1978 murder of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. For the march, Jones told people to write the names of loved ones lost for AIDS-related signs that would be attached to the San Francisco Federal Building. All the marks attached to the building looked like a big patchwork blanket for Jones, and he was inspired. It officially began in 1987 in San Francisco by Jones, Mike Smith, and volunteers Joseph Durant, Jack Caster, Gert McMullin, Ron Cordova, Larkin Mayo and Gary Yuschalk. At that time many people who died of the cause of AIDS did not receive the funeral, because both the social stigma of AIDS was felt by family members who survived and rejected directly by many funeral homes and funerals to deal with the deceased's body. Lack of warning service or grave site, The Quilt is often the only chance that victims should remember and celebrate the lives of their loved ones. The Quilt's first show was 1987 at the National Mall in Washington, DC. The last Quilt was featured in full at the Mall in Washington, D.C., in 1996, but returned in July 2012 to coincide with the commencement of the XIX International AIDS Conference, 2012.
The Quilt is a memorial and celebration of the lives of people lost because of the AIDS pandemic. Each panel is 3 feet (0.91 m) by 6 feet (1.8 m), approximately the average grave size; this connects AIDS ideas and deaths closer, though only about 20% of people who lose AIDS-related causes are represented. The Quilt is still maintained and displayed by The NAMES Project Foundation.
Taking into account National HIV Test Days in June 2004 1,000 newest blocks featured by the Foundation at The Ellipse in Washington, DC The largest display of The Quilt since it was last seen as a whole in October 1996, the 1,000 displayed blocks consisted of any panel delivered on or after display 1996.
In 1997, the NAMES Project headquarters moved from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., and in 2001 the quilt panel was moved from San Francisco to Atlanta, Georgia. The NAMES Project Foundation is now headquartered in Atlanta, and has 21 branches in the United States and more than 40 affiliate organizations worldwide. AIDS Memorial Quilt itself is also stored in Atlanta when it is not displayed, and continues to grow, currently comprised of over 48,000 individual warning panels (over 94,000 people) and weighs an estimated 54 tons.
Goals and achievements
The purpose of the Quilt is to bring awareness of how big an actual AIDS pandemic is, and to bring support and healing to those affected. Another goal is to raise funds for community-based AIDS service organizations, to increase their funding for AIDS prevention and education. In 1996, more than $ 1.7 million has been raised, and efforts continue to this day.
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Panel composition
Typically personalized personalized quilt panels are created by loved ones of someone who has died of AIDS-related causes. Each 3 'x 6' panel is the size of a human grave and its panels are donated to The NAMES Project Foundation where they are grouped with other similar panels and assembled into 12 'by 12' sections, called "blocks". These blocks can be seen in the local display of The Quilt, usually containing 8 separate panels.
Techniques used in the manufacture of panels include patchwork, applique, embroidery, painting fabric, collage, spray paint and embroidery, along with other methods.
Items and materials included in the panel:
- Fabrics, for example lace, suede, leather, feather kettles, taffeta, also Bubble Wrap and other types of plastics and even metals.
- Decorative objects such as pearls, quartz crystals, rhinestones, sequins, feathers, buttons.
- Clothing, e.g. jeans, T-shirts, gloves, boots, hats, uniforms, jackets, flip-flops.
- Personal items, such as human hair, cremation ashes, wedding rings, service badges and other awards, car keys.
- Unusual items, e.g. stuffed animals, notes, sports shirts, condoms, and bowling balls.
Sample panel
Those who send the panel do not have to know the person, but they must feel some kind of relationship with the individual they want people to know. For example, to capture the main singer of Queen Freddie Mercury, there are many panels made, two of which are solid white background with blue and black guitars, and "Freddy Mercury" written black side, with AIDS bands on its name, and purple silk with "Freddie Mercury," "Queen," and "1946-1991" in a silver applique, along with two Mercury images with Queen.
Many panels were also created for Rock Hudson actors, one of which consisted of dark blue backgrounds with silver "Rock Hudson" and stars, above the rainbow with the word "Hollywood".
Another panel is made by a loved one and then attached to make one big block. Some are flamboyant and hard, while some are more muted and simple; the way they all carry their own emotions.
Recognition and influence
- The NAMES project was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
- The Quilt is the subject of the award-winning documentary of the Peabody Award and Academy Award of 1989 Common thread: The Story of the Quilt , produced by Rob Epstein and Bill CouturiÃÆ'Â ©, and narrated by Dustin Hoffman.
- Songwriter Tom Brown wrote the song "Jonathan Wesley Oliver, Jr." about Quilt in 1988.
- In 1990 John Corigliano's Symphony No. 1 , inspired by AIDS Memorial Quilt, aired in New York.
- Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens , a song cycle developed in the late 1980s with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and additional text by Bill Russell, featuring songs and monologues inspired by The Quilt.
- In 1992 The AIDS Quilt Songbook , a collection of new musical works about the destruction of AIDS composed by baritone Lyric William Parker who asked them from a composer who had worked before.
- Different Drums Washington D.C (DCDD) and Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington (LGCW) commissioned the Quilt Panels from composer Robert Maggio in 2001.
- The NAMES project is the basis for Musical Celebration Quilt, A Musical Celebration
- The AIDS Memorial Quilt was mentioned and shown over the years that the General Hospital held their Nurse Balls (1994-2001) raising money for AIDS research. And the character of Michael "Stone" Cates was celebrated with a blanket in 1996.
- In 2002, the Chicago Chapter Project NAMES was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.
- Never to Be Forgotten is a 54-minute award-winning video created by Karen Peper documenting Quilt's June, 1988 visit to Detroit, Michigan. The show was part of a 20-city tour that began shortly after the Washington, DC 1987 premiere. The video begins with an opening ceremony footage from Washington DC screen and then moves to Detroit coverage. Included are opening and closing ceremonies at Cobo Hall along with viewing arrangements and screen notes. Volunteers share their feelings about participating in the event and viewers are given a close-up view on their respective panels. Dr. Peper also took extensive pictures of the Quilt visit to Columbus, OH; Chicago, IL; and the Washington show, D.C. 1987, 1993, and 1996.
- At Inside Amy Schumer , Schumer joked that comedian Mindy Kaling was wearing a blanket to an event during an artificial theater show at a clothing store.
- In the Modern Family season 7 episode 1, Luke jokes Haleys blanket is the saddest since Aids Quilt.
The project was inspired by NAMES
AIDS Memorial Quilt is the first of its kind as a burgeoning monument that is made little by little by thousands of individuals, and today is the largest piece of people's art in the world. It seems inevitable that The Quilt is followed by various awareness and awareness projects, both AIDS-related and vice versa, that have been inspired by and modeled on The AIDS Memorial Quilt and its caregiver The NAMES Project Foundation. Examples include:
- The K.I.A. Memorial Quilt, made to remember members of the US Army who were killed in the Iraq War.
- After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in America, a number of Quilt projects were created to memorialize the victims.
- The September 11 Quilts Memorial Exhibition
- Unite In Memory
- Blanket Memorial World Trade Center
- American 9-11 Memorial Blanket
- Many other medical conditions also now have blankets, for example:
- Huntington's Disease
- Congenital heart disease
- Breast cancer
- There are also blankets for the AIDS Pandemic sub-sect, including:
- Children
- Northern California
- Australians
- New Zealand
- "Virtual" AIDS Memorial Quilts has also been created:
- Project Stitch "Digital Quilt"
- Second Life
- The Massachusetts AIDS Action Committee
- AIDS Living Quilt South
- Columbia University AIDS Memorial
See also
- The Art of the Crisis of AIDS
- New York City AIDS Memorial
References
Further reading
- The New York Memorial Quilt records, 1988 (3 inches) is home to the New York State Archives.
- Robert Garcia Papers, 1988-1993 (9 cubic feet) placed in the Rare Library and Manuscript Library of Cornell University Library.
- Jim Graham Papers, 1973-2006 (80.5 linear feet) is stationed at the George Washington University Library Special Collections Research Center.
- Vito Russo Papers, 1969-1990 (21 linear feet) is housed in the New York Public Library.
- Senior Washington Blade Lou Chibbaro Senior Report, 1980-2000 (39 linear legs) is stored at the George Washington University Library Special Collection Research Center.
External links
- The NAMES Project Foundation AIDS Memorial Quilt site - blanket picture.
- Documentary and overview of the 1996 quilt display
- "The Quilt"
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