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	NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The AIDS Memorial Quilt is an enormous quilt made as a memorial to and celebration of the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes.
		The Quilt is maintained and displayed by The NAMES Project Foundation and was started in 1987 in San Francisco by Cleve Jones and a group of volunteers.
		The AIDS Memorial Quilt itself is also housed in Atlanta when not being displayed, and continues to grow, currently consisting of 5,748 blocks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NAMES_Project_AIDS_Memorial_Quilt (508 words)

	Quilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A quilt is a type of bedding— a bed covering composed of a quilt top, a layer of batting, and a layer of fabric for backing, generally combined using the technique of quilting.
		Amongst famous quilts in history is the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was begun in San Francisco in 1987, is cared for by The NAMES Project Foundation and is displayed in various arranged locations.
		Quilts focused on the September 11, 2001 attacks have particularly explored grief and anger.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quilt (1081 words)

	Kean University - AIDS Memorial Quilt
		The AIDS Quilt, a powerful visual reminder of both the sheer numbers and the human faces behind AIDS-related deaths, is a massive patchwork totaling more than 44,000 individual 3-by-6-foot memorial panels that include more than 84,000 names.
		The last display of the entire Quilt was in October of 1996, when the collective panels covered the entire National Mall in Washington, D.C. Since that time, the Quilt has grown exponentially, a testimony to its poignancy, but, unfortunately, to the spread of AIDS as well.
		A memorial, a tool for education and a work of art, it is a unique creation, an uncommon and uplifting response to the tragic loss of human life.
	www.kean.edu /namesproject.html (699 words)

	Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
		At emotional farewell ceremonies here, Jones said he was gratified that the quilt would be based in Atlanta, where it can be used to educate African-American communities and others that are being particularly hard hit with new HIV infections.
		Emphasizing that the war against AIDS is a political one as much a health crisis, Jones denounced governments for allowing the disease to infect 40 million people world-wide as AIDS enters its third decade.
		Three years later, Jones was fired by the quilt organization after clashing with its board on issues of diversity and how best to use the quilt in the continued fight against AIDS in the 21st Century.
	www.mistersf.com /farewell/fwquilt.htm (261 words)

	CNN - AIDS quilt draws huge crowds to nation's capital - Oct. 12, 1996
		The quilt is made of individual panels about 6 feet by 3 feet (1.8 meters by 1 meter) sewn into groups of eight and divided with pathways so visitors can visit each tribute.
		AIDS is the No. 1 killer of American men ages 24 to 44, and about 320,000 people have died from the disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
		AIDS activists demonstrated Saturday outside the White House, hoping to raise political awareness of the disease.
	www.cnn.com /US/9610/12/aids.activism (587 words)

	Ogunquit AIDS Quilt Home Page
		The Quilt is a reminder to us all that AIDS is still with us and has taken so many lives in the past 25 years.
		The AIDS Memorial Quilt goals are many; "To provide a creative means of remembrance and healing: illustrate the enormity of the AIDS epidemic; increase public awareness of AIDS; assist with HIV prevention education and raise funds for community-based AIDS service organizations."
		AIDS Quilt panels will be displayed at the Dunaway Center in Ogunquit, Maine on Memorial Day weekend.
	www.ogunquitaidsquilt.org (100 words)

	AIDS - The Names Project AIDS Memorial quilt
		Founded in 1987, The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a poignant memorial, a powerful tool for use in preventing new HIV infections, and the largest ongoing community arts project in the world.
		Their goal was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, and to thereby help people understand the devastating impact of the disease.
		A memorial, a tool for education and a work of art, the Quilt is a unique creation, an uncommon and uplifting response to the tragic loss of human life.
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/EXTHIVAIDS/0,,contentMDK:20728719~menuPK:376507~pagePK:64020865~piPK:149114~theSitePK:376471,00.html (886 words)

	Aids Quilt Panel
		In October of 1996, all the panels of the quilt were displayed in Washington D.C. on the mall between the Capitol and the Washington Monument.
		The quilt is made up of three by six foot panels with the names and memories of individuals who have died of aids.
		This may have been the last time it would be physically possible to display all of the quilt panels in a single setting, but the leaders of the Names Project have vowed to continue spreading the quilt on the mall in Washington until a cure is found, and is available to all who need it.
	www.bryerpatch.com /gallery/aidsquilt/aidsquilt.htm (2061 words)

	Australian Aids Quilt - Welcome
		The Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt Project was founded in September 1988 by Andrew Carter OAM and Richard Johnson in Sydney.
		The Quilt Project was the first of the many international projects to form the Names Project and regrettably remains the largest outside the United States.
		The response was so overwhelming that when the Quilt was displayed outside the White House in Washington, DC, some four months later, it had grown to 1,920 panels covering an area over two football fields in size.
	www.aidsquilt.org.au /history.php (448 words)

	AIDS memorial quilt height of ceremony
		AIDS is an epidemic that reaches all communities and is more prevalent than people think, Jennifer Altig says as she prepared for an AIDS commemorative quilt display Thursday.
		The event begins with an opening of the quilts, which are folded in lotus shape to signify the blossoming of a lotus flower.
		Each of the eight quilts contain eight panels, or sections, that are 3-by-6 feet, the size of a human grave.
	www.dailyegyptian.com /Spring98/5-1-98/cam_AIDS.html (512 words)

	AIDS Memorial Quilt comes to Knoxville in September
		AIDS Is Not Over - the present state of AIDS research, prevention, and care.
		The quilt, which was begun in 1987 with the simple inspiration of a spray-painted cloth memorial, has become the largest example of community art in the world.
		The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a massive undertaking and requires nearly 1,800 volunteers to carry out the event.
	www.covenanthealth.com /features/aidsquilt1998/aidsquilt1998.html (774 words)

	Australian Aids Quilt - Welcome
		If you know the block number of the panel you are after, use the "Block number" menu on the left hand side, to go directly to that page.
		AIDS is a worldwide problem that knows no territorial or cultural borders.
		To illustrate the impact of the AIDS epidemic by showing the humanity behind the statistics.
	www.aidsquilt.org.au (279 words)

	News Release: AIDS Memorial Quilt is Coming to CSU, Chico
		Twenty panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the largest ongoing community art project in the world, are coming to California State University, Chico on Oct. 19 and 20.
		Begun in 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is both a memorial to those who have died of AIDS and a powerful tool for use in preventing new HIV infections.
		Each panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt measures approximately 12 feet square, and a typical block consists of eight individual three-foot by six-foot panels sewn together.
	www.csuchico.edu /pa/news/Fall2005/9.23.2005.shtml (595 words)

	On the AIDS Quilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Some of the quilts are signed and dedicated by their makers, but even more moving are the quilts whose makers chose to remain anonymous: here anonymity stands for the hidden strength of human bonds rather than (as with the lost photos) the fraying of them.
		Each quilt is made lovingly from pieces of a life and the entire field of quilts (there must have been over a 100 in the room I was in) becomes not just random quilts placed together but a single quilt, THE quilt, a new community pieced from loss.
		The AIDS Quilt Project has a Web page filled with all kinds of information, including a history of the project and schedules of upcoming displays.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/pschmid1/array/instant.relatives/quilt.html (499 words)

	AIDS Memorial Quilt \| Project on Death in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is the work of the staff and residents of Joseph’s House, a permanent home for once homeless men living with AIDS and often battling a drug or alcohol addiction.
		The quilt panel depicts the diverse community as a family tree.
		The mission of the Project on Death in America is to understand and transform the culture and experience of dying in the United States through initiatives in research, scholarship, the humanities and the arts, as well as to foster innovations in the provision of care, public education, professional education and public policy.
	www2.soros.org /death/prOct7-96.htm (463 words)

	Hosting a Display of The Quilt
		A display of The Quilt is one of the most powerful tools available to your community in the fight against AIDS, and any government agency or incorporated organization, non-profit or not, is eligible to host a display.
		Bring The Quilt to work with locally-based HIV and AIDS education and prevention efforts on the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities nationwide.
		Displays of The AIDS Memorial Quilt on college and university campuses, either as a part of a health awareness week or as an individual exhibit, offer a valuable and unique opportunity to communicate the message that preventing HIV infection is the key to stopping AIDS.
	www.aidsquilt.org /displayhost.htm (571 words)

	AIDS Memorial Quilt Display - November 6 \| Frisco Pride
		Part of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display on Sunday, November 6, 2005 at Lee Park (3333 Lee Parkway) in Dallas from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.
		The Lone Star Ride Fighting AIDS is sponsoring the display, which will feature 120 blocks of the Quilt (each block holds up to eight panels) of the internationally known AIDS Memorial Quilt.
		The Quilt travels around the country, and this is a wonderful opportunity to see such a vibrant memorial in Dallas.
	www.friscopride.com /node/246 (159 words)

	GLINN'S AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT FEATURE STORY - AIDS QUILT - AIDS QUILT IN WASHINGTON, DC, AIDS QUILT PHOTOS AND SOUND, DVD ...
		The Quilt became both the human face of AIDS and a battle flag against the ignorance and fear that surrounded the disease.
		The Quilt, as massive as it is in panels and weight (45 tons), represents only one in ten of the deaths from AIDS.
		With the quilt display as the centerpiece, Washington was gay/lesbian central for a wide range of activities and events.
	www.ragefilm.com (3439 words)

	AIDS Memorial Quilt tells heartfelt story
		The silence in Student Center Ballroom B is deafening as 12 unique quilt panels hang from the high ceilings.
		The quilt tells the story of former Carbondale resident John Thomas Stinebaugh and his passion for his car and truck, his enjoyment of cutting grass and his telephone skills.
		Factoid: The AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display in Student Center Ballrooms B and C today from 10 a.m.
	www.dailyegyptian.com /fall00/12-01-00/quilt.html (594 words)

	MCFTA: AIDS Memorial Quilt
		The Midland Center for the Arts is honored to present 10 sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art.
		The Quilt will be on view in the Museum in collaboration with the Symphony’s performance of John Corigliano’s Grammy Award-winning Symphony No. 1 “AIDS” on Feb. 4 during the Creative Influences concert.
		The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a poignant memorial -- a powerful tool for use in preventing new HIV infections, and it is the largest ongoing community arts project in the world.
	www.mcfta.org /A_ABDow/Exhibits/0601_AIDS/index.html (476 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features - A REFLECTION OF THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT
		It is the creative aspect of the quilt, both personal and monumental, which represents the continual dialogue between those who have died and their loved ones who continue to carry on the fight.
		The NAMES quilt, a project started by Cleve Jones in 1987, is now a national emblem of the battle against AIDS.
		Proving that indeed "Not all battles are fought with a sword," the quilt's slogan, it has become one of the most powerful tools for AIDS education and awareness.
	www.artnet.com /magazine_pre2000/features/butler/names.asp (658 words)

	All About Care \| Aids Quilt
		The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a poignant memorial, a powerful tool for prevention education and the largest ongoing community arts project in the world.
		The overwhelming response to the Quilt's inaugural display led to a four-month, 20-city, national tour for the Quilt in the spring of 1988.
		In October of that year, the Quilt was again displayed on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. By 1992, the AIDS Memorial Quilt included panels from every state and 28 countries.
	www.allaboutcare.org /aidsquilt (949 words)

	NAMES Project-AIDS Memorial Quilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Quilt is a reminder of the AIDS pandemic.
		The Quilt is a memorial, a tool for education, and a work of art.
		The last time the entire Quilt was displayed was in 1996, in Washington, D.C., where it covered the entire National Mall.
	www.town.needham.ma.us /BOH/BOHHIVandAIDSNAMESProject_AIDSMemorialQuilt.htm (326 words)

	UMass Boston Hosts AIDS Memorial Quilt
		The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, an international memorial to those who have died of AIDS, will be shown April 23-25 in Clark Athletic Center.
		The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
		The entire AIDS Memorial Quilt, the largest example of a community art project, includes more than 44,000 panels made by family members, friends, lovers, co-workers and others.
	www.umb.edu /news/1998news/reporter/ureporter0498/quiltstory.html (385 words)

	The AIDS QUILT, The AIDS Memorial Quilt Astrology Chart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Hence, the Quilt is the largest ongoing community arts project in the world.
		When the Quilt was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, the chart ruler -- Venus -- had progressed to 2° Scorpio where she aspected the Moon's Nodes, while the final dispositor of the chart -- Pluto in Scorpio -- had progressed to 11° Scorpio to conjunct Mercury which rules the memorial Gemini Moon.
		The "cometoid" Chiron was highest in the sky on the morning of the unfurling of the Quilt, thus she overlooked the event.
	astroqueer.tripod.com /charts/events/aidsquilt.html (360 words)

	Central City AIDS Network - The Rainbow Center...
		Memorial Quilt is a very moving and lasting experience.
		The National AIDS Memorial Quilt now measures over one mile long with well over 70,000 names on it.
		At present The Quilt so too big to move as one unit any more so on future presentation The Quilt will only be displayed by regions.
	www.rainbowcenter.us /emory.htm (231 words)

	The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt returns to The College of Wooster
		This marks the third time the quilt will be exhibited in Wooster, reinforcing the College's commitment to ensure that each class of students has an opportunity to experience the display and its message.
		The Wooster display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt will be one of the larger exhibits, and people from the surrounding area are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity.
		The quilt will be blessed, and the floor display will be folded, symbolizing the closing of the display.
	www.wayne-health.org /html/aidsquilt2.html (825 words)

	Free AIDS Educational Workshops Feature Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt (February 3, 2000)
		The AIDS Memorial Quilt is on tour and making its important story known through the eyes and the ears of East Tennessee’s school-age children.
		She says the memorial quilt pieces are very moving to the children.
		The Quilt is the largest piece of folk art in the world and is made of more than 83,279 panels representing people who have died from AIDS.
	www.covenanthealth.com /news/2000/0200/nrhc-workshops.html (436 words)

	York Weekly Art: AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed this weekend
		The AIDS Memorial Quilt began in San Francisco in 1987, as a way to remember those who have died from AIDS.
		Today it is a powerful visual reminder of the AIDS pandemic, consisting of more than 45,000 memorial panels.
		The display is sponsored by the Ogunquit Host Committee of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a group of local residents who work to bring the panels to Ogunquit each year.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/yorkweekly/05262004/arts/18230.htm (399 words)

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