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Pandemic Quilt

Credit: Mary AndrusDuring the academic school year (2021-2022) 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.

In partnership with Bag&Baggage Theatre and 350.org we plan to create squares as part of the Climate Change play series on November 13, 2021.
Starting in October 2021 we will host weekly virtual sessions from 3-6pm every Thursday to create together in our Art for Social Change Open Studio. 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 will participate in the Ray Warren Ethnic Studies symposium to display pandemic quilts and moderate an art therapy sewing circle.

Quilt Square Samples

Quilting For Change event held on September 1, 2021

Our first Quilt for Change event happened on August 6, 2021 in a tent by York at the Graduate School at Lewis & Clark College.

Mary Andrus planning out a quilt square design.

Quilt square design by Mary Andrus.

Past Events

January 18, 2022

Art for Social Change Weekly Meeting (Open to L&C Community)

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.