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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.
		Typically a very personalized individual quilt panel is created by the loved ones of someone who has died of AIDS or HIV related causes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NAMES_Project_AIDS_Memorial_Quilt (457 words)

	Aids Quilt -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating batting in between.
		Quilting can also be used as a form of elaborate decoration, where the stitchery creates complex designs and patterns, with or without the use of colour.
		A quilt is a bed covering composed of two layers of fabric and a layer of batting in between, generally made by the technique of quilting.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/2/aids-quilt.html (1121 words)

	WILLA Volume 7 - Upon Viewing the AIDS Quilt: One Feminist's Response
		The AIDS Quilt Project threatens the prevailing hegemonic construction of the disease by engaging its viewers, who, through their intellectual and emotional interaction with the project, become participants in a creative dynamic, in a confrontive visceral experience more powerful than words in revealing the true nature of this blight upon us all.
		The AIDS Quilt Project assumes the agency that is usually reserved for the Subject by using the same technique of naming; however it uses naming differently-to erase rather than erect the artificial division between Subject and Other.
		AIDS victims are first and foremost members of our families-aunts and uncles, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, wives and husbands, those we count as our dearest friends.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/old-WILLA/fall97/Condravy.html (2214 words)

	Aids Quilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		AIDS Memorial Quilt The AIDS Quilt 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.
		Quilting Quilting is a method of sewing two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating batting in between.
		Quilt A quilt is a bed covering composed of two layers of fabric and a layer of wadding in between, made by the technique of quilting.
	bobedding.com /Aids+Quilt.html (624 words)

	Speakers Share Their Thoughts at AIDS Quilt Opening Ceremony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ten years ago I chaired the committee to bring the AIDS quilt to Connecticut for the first time, I again brought it to the University of Connecticut three years ago, which was the last time I saw my brother's panel.
		The quilt is an uplifting response to the tragedy of the Aids pandemic that claims over 8,000 lives worldwide daily.
		The AIDS Quilt reminds us that in our individual-ness, we are each part of the community that shares the suffering of AIDS, and that shares the challenge of ending this disease.
	www.bucknell.edu /News_Events/More_News/December_2003/AIDS_Quilt_Opening_Ceremony.html (3016 words)

	CNN - AIDS quilt unfurled in Washington to commemorate victims - Oct. 11, 1996
		AIDS quilt unfurled in Washington to commemorate victims
		The quilt is made up of 38,000 panels, each commemorating at least one person who has died from the disease.
		AIDS is the number one killer of American men aged 24 to 44, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
	www.cnn.com /US/9610/11/aids.quilt (301 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)

	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)

	Australia Aids Quilt - Rituals
		It should be seen as the final facet of a holistic approach to the pandemic, which begins with preventative education and moves through the provision of support services for those who are already living with the condition.
		After the handing over of new panels, the Quilt is officially and solemnly unfolded by a special team of volunteers, some of whom may be representatives of other community groups.
		Visitors to the Quilt are invited to leave their name or written response on a Signature Panel which is specially produced to accompany each Quilt display.
	www.aidsquilt.org.au /rituals.php (331 words)

	AIDS Quilt Comes to MSSD, brings strong message home --Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, Gallaudet ...
		The AIDS Memorial Quilt started in 1987 in San Francisco, Calif. It is now the world's largest community art project and contains over 40,000 panels handmade by family and friends in honor of a loved one who has died of AIDS.
		Williamson explained that additional support activities included classroom discussions about AIDS and AIDS prevention, guest speakers who are HIV positive, and videotapes with teenagers describing their experiences of living with AIDS.
		Jankowski summed up the experience: "The three days the AIDS quilt was here had a tremendous impact, especially in personal discussions where students shared their experiences of family members who have died of AIDS.
	clerccenter.gallaudet.edu /Clearinghouse/Happenings/quilt.html (692 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)

	AIDS quilt caught up in tempest / Its creator sues owners, saying tour plan got him fired
		The gay rights activist who created the AIDS Memorial Quilt in a Castro district storefront and the Atlanta nonprofit foundation that owns the famed memorial to the victims of the AIDS epidemic are locked in a bitter dispute over how best to use the 50-ton, 40,000-panel quilt in the fight against AIDS.
		The foundation also backtracked on its promise to reopen an office for the quilt project in San Francisco, where the quilt was first sewn in 1987 and where it was kept until the foundation moved to Georgia in 2001, the lawsuit contends.
		He conceived of the quilt in 1985, when AIDS was sweeping the Castro district and had recently claimed its 1,000th San Francisco victim.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/21/MNG6Q4EAE51.DTL (1472 words)

	The AIDS QUILT, The AIDS Memorial Quilt Astrology Chart
		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.
		The Quilt is "a memorial, a tool for education, a work of art, a unique creation, and an uncommon and uplifting response to the tragic loss of human life."
	astroqueer.tripod.com /charts/events/aidsquilt.html (360 words)

	AIDS quilt comes to ORR: 12/ 10/ 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Panels from the AIDS memorial quilt were on display at ORR in Mattapoisett last night.
		She's never seen the panel before, since the quilt travels all over the country, so she arrived hopeful last night at the Old Rochester Regional Memorial High School, looking for the patch of quilt she made to commemorate her son, Edward F. McKay, who died of AIDS in 1995.
		McKay was one of a handful of people who visited ORR last night to view three segments of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which comprises a total of 44,000 panels, each one memorializing someone who died.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/12-04/12-10-04/a03lo184.htm (498 words)

	IDS: AIDS quilt display begins tonight (Campus, 01/28/2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The IU chapter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign organized the AIDS quilt visit and a ceremony to be held at 7 p.m.
		Each 6-by-3-foot section of the quilt represents the life of one person killed by AIDS and is made of materials ranging from Barbie dolls and bubble wrap to cremation ashes, mink and wedding rings.
		Sue Myllykangas, a doctoral candidate studying AIDS in older women, was inspired to volunteer at tonight's event after experiencing firsthand the pain associated with the death of loved ones killed by AIDS.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=20881 (673 words)

	AIDS Quilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As soon as she heard the AIDS Quilt was coming to West Marin for the first time since 1989, Inverness Park poet Jody Farrell dialed the phone and made a simple request.
		However, immense as it is, the quilt represents just 12 percent of the AIDS deaths in the United States alone.
		Welch, 53, was diagnosed as having AIDS in 1990.
	www.ptreyeslight.com /stories/nov27/aids.html (1112 words)

	AEGiS-AP: AIDS Quilt Readied for Atlanta Move
		SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The AIDS Memorial Quilt dedicated to 80,000 victims of the disease left San Francisco on Friday with a tearful send-off from the city where the first of its 40,000 panels were stitched together 14 years ago.
		The quilt is a safe way of getting the message into that community," said Chris Parsons, acting deputy director of AID Atlanta, the largest AIDS service organization in the Southeast.
		Over the years, the quilt was taken across the country and around the world, but always came back home to San Francisco, where it was kept in a warehouse.
	www.aegis.com /news/ap/2001/AP010339.html (608 words)

	AIDS quilt readies for move to Atlanta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The NAMES Project, keepers of the quilt, is relocating the massive memorial for 80,000 AIDS victims to Atlanta.
		AIDS was beginning to take its toll on the city's gay population and Jones felt the need to keep their memories alive.
		Jones said the quilt is symbolic of struggles facing all people in the world dealing with the AIDS crisis, gay and straight.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/03/29/state2345EST0318.DTL (428 words)

	aids quilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The AIDS Quilt The AIDS Memorial Quilt is an enormous quilt made as a memorial to and of the lives of...
		AIDS Memorial Quilt Comes to Oberlin The largest section of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed in the state of Ohio was on view in the Heisman Club Field House during the first...
		The AIDS Quilt 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.
	www.quilting-techniques.com /aidsquilt (1420 words)

	AMA (Virtual Mentor) Images of Healing & Learning January 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They provided the first quilted panels -- pieces the size of an average human grave, 3 feet by 6 feet - to celebrate the lives of persons dear to them, before inviting others around the country and the world to contribute to the work.
		As a work of art, the Quilt Project uses an array of materials (legos, keys, wedding rings, cremation ashes are just a few) and mediums (panels often come accompanied by documents which are cataloged) to narrate the popular culture of the past several decades and of the present.
		Individual panels of the quilt may be searched by name or by block number. Tragically, indeed, the story is still being written, as reflected by the continued growth of the quilt.
	www.ama-assn.org /ama/pub/category/print/3788.html (417 words)

	AIDS Quilt Panels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On Wednesday, April 17, 1996, two panels of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt were on display at the G. Ray Bodley High School in Fulton, NY.
		The AIDS Memeorial Quilt is a tribute to people who have died of AIDS.
		The panels in the QUilt have been made in memory of sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts and uncles, teachers, classmates, co-workers, friends and lovers.
	www.cs.oswego.edu /acioc/quilt (354 words)

	AIDS Quilt Compared to Vietnam Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		AIDS Quilt Compared To Vietnam Memorial The AIDS memorial quilt, coming to MIT from Friday through Sunday, Sept. 21-23, has the power of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, The Boston Globe said in a September 4 editorial on The Names Project.
		"But weekly quilting bees at the Arlington Street Church and the Piemonte Room at Boston City Hall are working to add as many panels as time allows on behalf of local AIDS victims.
		A large section of the quilt, now too huge to be shown in its entirety, will be seen by thousands of New Englanders during The Names Project display at the MIT Johnson Athletic Center from Friday, Sept. 21 through Sunday, Sept. 23.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/tt/1990/sep12/23618.html (284 words)

	St. Margaret's - The Names Project AIDS Quilt Display
		A blank panel of quilt was provided as a "Signature Panel." Students and other viewers were encouraged to write their thoughts, feelings and reactions to the display on this blank canvas.
		The sections of the quilt during the opening ceremonies before they were hung for viewing.
		Having the Quilt at St. Margaret's has been one of the most amazing experiences of my high school years, and seeing the entire community brought together by these pieces of fabric gives me hope for the future of the world and humanity.
	www.sms.org /wn_aids.htm (642 words)

	AIDS quilt - Vermont Department of Health
		Panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display in Stowe and Montpelier in observation of World AIDS Day, December 1.
		Nearly half of the quilt's 44,000 panels are being displayed in schools, colleges, places of worship and other community venues in cities and towns across the country to remember those who have died from AIDS and to focus attention on HIV/AIDS prevention.
		Montpelier: Display of panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt, Statehouse adjacent to main lobby, November 27 -- December 7.
	www.state.vt.us /health/record/aids113000.htm (364 words)

	Aids Quilt
		History of the Quilt meeting of devoted friends and lovers served as the foundation of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
		The Health Action AIDS Campaign mobilizes the health professions to support a comprehensive AIDS strategy and advocate for the estimated US$2.5 billion needed to combat the disease, while A Role for.
		AIDS quilt stitches memories together Mills' panel in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
	www.herbyouth.com /testosterone/aids-quilt.html (571 words)

	The Body: Washington, D.C., AIDS Quilt Group Disbands; Activists Say New Policies From National Foundation Office Will ...
		The Washington, D.C.-area chapter of the Names Project -- the huge quilt that pays tribute to people who have died of AIDS -- is disbanding because of a dispute with the national foundation that controls the ever-expanding memorial.
		The D.C. chapter objected to a decision by the foundation to limit the availability of portions of the quilt that are exhibited in classrooms, churches and public places.
		Since the AIDS quilt was started 14 years ago, the foundation has managed it in cooperation with independent chapters, said foundation managing director Julie Rhoad.
	www.thebody.com /cdc/news_updates_archive/mar26_02/aids_quilt.html (448 words)

	Death - the last taboo: Remembering the dead - The AIDS quilt
		The Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt was launched in 1988 with 35 panels.
		There are now 122 quilt blocks, each with around 8 panels, commemorating approximately 2,700 Australians who have died of AIDS-related illnesses.
		There are 37 quilt projects worldwide, and branches in most Australian states and territories.
	www.deathonline.net /remembering/remembering/aids_quilt.cfm (249 words)

	AIDS, quilt, volunteer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		AIDS Quilt to be displayed at Purdue Memorial Union
		The quilt began in San Francisco when Cleve Jones, a longtime San Francisco gay rights activist, searched for a way to make people understand the overwhelming loss and frustration affecting him and so many of his friends.
		The NAMES Project Foundation displays portions of the quilt worldwide to encourage visitors to better understand and respond to the epidemic of AIDS, to provide a positive means of expression for those grieving the death of a loved one, and to raise funds for people living with HIV and AIDS.
	www.purdue.edu /UNS/html3month/970411.AIDS.quilt.html (475 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)

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