Brookdale 's Student Life & Activities will exhibit three panels from the internationally-celebrated AIDS Memorial Quilt in the collge's Center for Visual Arts Gallery on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
Founded in 1987, The AIDS Memorial Quilt Names Project has won distinction as the largest ongoing community arts project in the world.
The quilt, which has been exhibited in countless sites across the globe, has become known as a poignant reminder of the pain associated with loss of loved ones to AIDS by showing a literal mass and diverse patchwork of lives affected.
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It has also been touted as a powerful educational tool to illustrate and personalize the magnitude of loss wrought by AIDS and encourage prevention of a hike in number of new HIV infections.
Each "block" (or section) of The AIDS Memorial Quilt measures approximately twelve square feet. A typical block consists of eight individual three- by six-foot panels sewn together.
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Every one of the more than 40,000 colorful panels that make up the quilt memorializes the life of a person lost to AIDS.
World AIDS Day is Dec. 1 and its mission is to bring light to a disease that is characterized as both all too prevalent and ignored. AIDS affects people from all races, genders, socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientations,religions and more.
Through viewing the quilt, project organizers have persistently fought to send the message that AIDS isn’t just “their” (victims') issue, it’s everyone’s issue.
