Sections of the Quilt Have Been Viewed by More Than 15 Million
A section of the internationally celebrated AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display at Wilmington College’s Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center April 10 through 17, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The 54-ton, handmade tapestry stands as a memorial to more than 94,000 individuals lost to AIDS. WC’s Gay-Straight Alliance organization is sponsoring the exhibit.
(ABOVE) Sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt are pictured on the U.S. Capitol Mall. Photo courtesy of The NAMES Project.
The NAMES Project Foundation is the international organization that serves as custodian of the Nobel Prize-nominated AIDS Memorial Quilt, which began as a single 3x6-foot panel created in San Francisco in 1987. It now features more than 48,000 individual panels, each one commemorating the life of someone lost to AIDS.
In the war against a disease that has no known cure, the AIDS Memorial Quilt has evolved as a potent tool in the effort to educate against the lethal threat of HIV-AIDS.
By revealing the humanity behind the statistics, the AIDS Memorial Quilt is designed to teach compassion, triumphs over taboo, stigma and phobia; and inspire individuals to take direct responsibility for their own wellbeing and that of their friends, family and community.
Sections are continuously on display across the country in schools, churches, community centers, businesses, corporations and a variety of other institutional settings all in the hope of making the realities of HIV-AIDS real, human and immediate. To date, more than 15 million people have seen The AIDS Memorial Quilt at tens of thousands of displays throughout the world
