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A massive memorial AIDS quilt, sponsored by the San Francisco Names Project, was displayed April 12 and 13, 1988 in Golden Hall at San Diego’s Civic Center downtown as part of a national tour.
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. The NAM’s new web platform marks the beginning of a larger community sourcing project to ensure that names, panel numbers, and dates are accurate. The site now ...
Courtesy of the National AIDS Memorial / NAMES Project. The quilt traces its origins to 1985, when Jones decided to commemorate the 1,000 San Francisco residents who had succumbed to AIDS to date ...
Mike Smith co-founded the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in 1987. Now living through his second pandemic, Smith is finding ways to help out amid COVID-19 -- and to inspire others to do the same.
The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt on display near the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. in October 1992. Then 21,000 panels, the quilt has more than doubled by 2019.
More than 48,000 individual 3-by-6-foot memorial panels — most commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS — have been sewn together by friends, lovers and family members.
In 1990, "Common Threads," a documentary film about the quilt, won an Academy Award. More information about The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt is available at the foundation's web site: https://www ...
Aids Memorial Quilt in Washington, D.C. Shaun Heasley/Getty. McMullin has now made hundreds of panels — which, by design, measure the dimensions of a grave, 3 ft. by 6 ft. — more than anyone else.
“The Last One” is the title of a documentary about the Names Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt, airing Monday on Showtime to mark World AIDS Day. After all these years, it’s tragic that the ...
WESTAMPTON, N.J. (CBS) -- For the first time in five years, parts of the AIDS Memorial Quilt returned to Burlington County on Friday and residents added new panels to the quilt to memorialize ...
"We have six blocks on display in the First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton — 48 quilts representing over 100 names. On each block is a quilt made for an East End person who died of AIDS ...
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