Memorial and Tribute Gifts

This exhibition, created by artists from around the world and curated by
Susanne Jones, focuses on the history of the battles for human, civil, and political rights, and their continuing developments today. This colorful new way to approach human rights answers the demand for new perspectives on the issues.

Park Bench Stories consists of 39 art quilts that can best be described as figurative, representational fabric collages of people who have come to sit on a park bench. Every one of these pieces, whether a single person, a couple, or more people occupying the same space–tells a story.

Lively, colorful, and skillfully made fabric “portraits” of endangered species bring them to real, vibrant life. Each portrait features fascinating animal and plant facts from rescuers, scientists, conservationists, and more: where they live, what their superpowers are, why they are at risk, and how we can help. Curated by Donna DeSoto.

This series focuses on miniature scale and explores the unlimited layout and design options of the Log Cabin pattern. Amy used over 60,000 individual fabric pieces for the quilts in this exhibition.