NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt (often abbreviated AIDS Memorial Quilt ) is a quilt in the United States.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt commemorates the lives of people who have died of complications from AIDS. The quilt weighs around 54 tons and is the world's largest work of art that was created by a community in the field of handicrafts.

The quilt was from the organization The Names Project Foundation ( a group led by Cleve Jones, Mike Smith and other volunteers ) started in San Francisco in 1987. At that time some died of complications from AIDS people received no reasonable funeral services due to social exclusion by surviving family members. Often friends of the deceased had only the opportunity to remind you about the project AIDS Memorial Quilt of the beloved deceased. The last time 1996, the Quilt in its full size on the National Mall in Washington DC was spread.

The headquarters of the Organization The Names Project Foundation is located in Atlanta, Georgia. The organization has 21 affiliated organizations in the United States and more than 40 affiliated organizations worldwide. The quilt is held in Atlanta, if it is not issued from time to time elsewhere. The artwork continues to grow and currently consists of 5,748 blocks, which consist of more than 44,000 mementos of individual fates.

The quilt is made of different materials ( for example, lace, leather, taffeta or mink ) and was produced in different handicraft techniques ( for example, patchwork, applique, collage or embroidery ).

Based on this model in the fall of 1992, the much smaller Names Project Vienna started.

Media and Honors

  • In the documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt the emergence of the quilt is being filmed. The documentary was produced by Robert Epstein and won an Oscar for best documentary.
  • The songwriter Tam Brown writes in the song Jonathan Wesley Oliver, Jr. on the quilt.
  • In the 1990 John Corigliano's Symphony No. was. 1 inspired by Qulit.
  • The AIDS Quilt Songbook was published in 1992 by baritone singer William Parker.
  • The NAMES Project inspired the song cycle Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
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