The AIDS Memorial Quilt

Nov. 29 – Dec. 5, 2006

"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.

"Each "block" (or section) 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. Virtually every one of the more than 40,000 colorful panels that make up the Quilt memorializes the life of a person lost to AIDS.

"As the epidemic continues to claim lives around the world and in the U.S., the Quilt continues to grow and to reach more communities with its messages of remembrance, awareness, and hope." –AIDSQuilt.org.

Images from the Dec.1-9, 2003, AIDS Memorial Quilt installation in the Samek Art Gallery

Block Number 01506

David White, Kevin M. Child (Bucknell Class of ’89), John C., Women from UMD Newark, Ralph Candelaria, Bill, Keith Thomas, Shade.

http://www.aidsquilt.org/

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