Pandemic Quilt
During the academic school year (2022-2023) Art for Social Change & the Art Therapy Department will host a series of sewing circles virtually, on campus and in the community. Our intention is to create multiple quilts to represent how the pandemic has exacerbated and brought to light longstanding and detrimental effects injustice, inequity and oppression in the United States.
Our collective voices will stitch together our stories and lived experiences, raising critical consciousness of the inequities felt across racial, social, political, economic and cultural differences.
Our current, past and future events include:
- Presented at an ASC Open Studio with the campus’ Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative on campus in February 2022
- In partnership with Bag&Baggage Theatre and 350.org we displayed squares as part of the Climate Change play series on November 13, 2021.
- We host weekly virtual sessions from 3-6pm every Thursday to create together in our Art for Social Change Open Studio. Bring your quilt square to work on. Register here
- We are planning a regional Art Therapy Symposium in May 2022 when we intend to display some of the quilts to the public.
- Art for Social Change participated in the Ray Warren Ethnic Studies symposium to display pandemic quilts and moderate an art therapy sewing circle.
- Can’t come to our sewing circle? Request a kit.
Quilt Square Samples
Past Events
Adulting while First-Gen Lunch
Let us know if you plan to come by filling out this RSVP link. By doing so, we’ll send you a friendly email reminder leading up to our lunch!
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Art for Social Change Meeting
Open to all students, faculty, staff and alumni of L&C, we create events to heal from oppression and discuss where art in relationship transforms lives, builds community, examines social constructs, raises critical consciousness and creates a more just society.
Art Therapy Open Studio Sessions
Open studio sessions are FREE and open to the public. The in-person open studios are held at the Lewis & Clark Community Counseling Center, located on 4445 SW Barbur Blvd.
Galleries
Pandemic Quilt Get Together
Climate Change Theatre Action
Art for Social Change participated in the Climate Change Theatre Action at Bag&Baggage’s Vault Theatre in Hillsboro. Other participants included 350PDX Washington Team and the Westside Quilters Guild.
Joy & Justice Community Fair
Quilt Square Samples
Quilting For Change - 9/1/2021
Quilting For Change
How to Make a Quilt Square
email artforsocialchange@lclark.edu
go.lclark.edu/a4sc
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Art for Social Change
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219