NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Exhibit Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-656

Staff Only

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Collection, 1995, from the exhibit of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Exhibit held at Michigan Technological University in September 1995. Includes project documents, banners, letters, photograph album, videos, and other miscellaneous ephemera.

Dates

1995

Creator

Michigan Technological University (Organization)

Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biography

Founded in 1987, The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a poignant memorial, a powerful tool for use in preventing new HIV infections, and the largest ongoing community arts project in the world. Each "block" (or section) of The AIDS Memorial Quilt measures approximately twelve feet square, and a typical block consists of eight individual three foot by six foot panels sewn together. Virtually every one of the more than 40,000 colorful panels that make up the Quilt memorializes the life of a person lost to AIDS. As the epidemic continues claiming lives around the world and here in the United States, the Quilt continues to grow and to reach more communities with its messages of remembrance, awareness and hope.