Gone But Not Forgotten
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, March 18th, from 2PM - 4PM
Exhibit Opening: Gone But Not Forgotten
Join Gone But Not Forgotten Lead Artist Rachel Wallis for a conversation about the history and future of Gone But Not Forgotten, a community memorial quilt for individuals killed by the Chicago Police Department.
Exhibit opening and artist talk
March 18, 2017
2pm to 4pm
244 Lake St.,
Oak Park, IL, 60302
Quilting Circle
March 22nd, 2017
6pm to 9pm
244 Lake St.,
Oak Park, IL, 60302
Join us as we create a memorial quilt honoring individuals killed by the Chicago Police Department.
Please RSVP to the quilting circle at gbnf@rachelawallis.com
Gone But Not Forgotten is a collaborative quilting project creating a memorial quilt for individuals killed by the Chicago Police Department or while in police custody from 2006 to 2015. In collaboration with the grassroots group We Charge Genocide, artist Rachel Wallis planned and organized a series of peace circles/quilting circles where participants could read the victims’ stories aloud, while creating a hand embroidered quilt in their memory. The circles have provided a safe space where more than 200 people from vastly different neighborhoods and backgrounds could come together and discuss transformative justice, police accountability, and community safety. Together, we created a six panel quilt which stretches nearly 40 feet in length and commemorating the lives of 144 individuals.
Compound Yellow will be exhibiting one of the six finished quilt panels, while hosting public quilting circles creating squares for the seventh, and final panel of the project.
All events are free and open to the public.
No sewing experience necessary.
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