Contribute to “The Witness Quilt”
March 9 @ 10:00 am – March 16 @ 5:00 pm
FGP has an opportunity to participate in “The Witness Quilt,” part of Pittsburgh artist Louise Silk’s new exhibition at the Heinz History Center: Louise Silk: A Patchwork Life in the museum’s fifth floor Barensfeld Gallery.
“The Witness Quilt” is an interactive community project. Silk has started to create a special quilt from 1,152 patches of reused fabric, each bearing folk sayings collected over a lifetime of listening and learning.
“The Witness Quilt” embodies the major themes of Silk’s career. It explores the fluid boundaries between craft and art, highlights quilting’s interactive and communal aspects, and integrates Jewish cultural expression into the broader fabric of American life.
Throughout the run of the exhibit, Silk and a team of volunteers – the Patchwork Life Stitching Circle – will be stationed inside the exhibition to continue working on the quilt.
Between March 9-16, FGP members are invited to participate in expanding the “The Witness Quilt” by bringing in a piece of fabric that holds personal significance and donating it for incorporation into the quilt or by volunteering to join the Stitching Circle.
Free admission for all guild members March 9-16.
A special display of the FGP archives will be on display on the sixth floor at the same time.