2008 Woodie Awards
AIDS quilt returns to LCCC for a day
Chris Kovach
Issue date: 5/3/08 Section: News
Lorain County Community College's Pride Group hosted portions of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on Tuesday, April 15 in the Stocker Center.
The 12 foot tall quilt, which is made up of eight square panels, represent the different stories of people who have been affected by AIDS.
Founded in San Francisco in 1987, the quilt is one of the largest ongoing community arts projects in the world. Panels are added to the quilt by individuals who were affected by or have known someone who was affected by the disease.
As of October 2001, there were more than 45,000 panels in The Quilt, which are constantly on display around the country. Many of the panels on display were donated from people who were affected by AIDS from our region.
The Pride Group worked hard to assemble wooden frames which took nearly eight hours to fit the quilts.
Shannon Bohnert, a psychology major at LCCC, volunteered through the Pride Group to help out Tuesday. "A lot of people weren't sure what it was for," said Bohnert. "One girl thought the panels were for dead playwrights."
The last time the full quilt was displayed was in Washington D.C., and as the epidemic claims more lives and more panels are made, The Quilt has grown so large that there are no immediate plans to display it in its entirety. For more information regarding The Quilt, visit http://www.aidsquilt.org.
The 12 foot tall quilt, which is made up of eight square panels, represent the different stories of people who have been affected by AIDS.
Founded in San Francisco in 1987, the quilt is one of the largest ongoing community arts projects in the world. Panels are added to the quilt by individuals who were affected by or have known someone who was affected by the disease.
As of October 2001, there were more than 45,000 panels in The Quilt, which are constantly on display around the country. Many of the panels on display were donated from people who were affected by AIDS from our region.
The Pride Group worked hard to assemble wooden frames which took nearly eight hours to fit the quilts.
Shannon Bohnert, a psychology major at LCCC, volunteered through the Pride Group to help out Tuesday. "A lot of people weren't sure what it was for," said Bohnert. "One girl thought the panels were for dead playwrights."
The last time the full quilt was displayed was in Washington D.C., and as the epidemic claims more lives and more panels are made, The Quilt has grown so large that there are no immediate plans to display it in its entirety. For more information regarding The Quilt, visit http://www.aidsquilt.org.
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