The Lynch Quilts Project, a community based effort, which explores the history and ramifications of racial violence, specifically lynching, in the United States through the textile tradition of quilting. Launched in 2002, the project consists of a series of 9 quilts tackling the lynching phenomenon from various perspectives such as collective memory, communal conflict, gender, healing and politics.
Quilting is the ideal choice to explore this history because of the great metaphors the quilting process personifies and the communal aspect of quilt making. Quilts and the quilting process epitomize reclamation and rediscovery. These quilts are about piecing together remnants of fabric and lost history. It is about reclaiming tossed garments and forgotten lives, stitching together all of these fragments into a new and complete cloth; one that encompasses the multiple perspectives and identities that reflect a more balanced and total view of history.
By utilizing the arts, we create spaces for our community to come together and examine these histories through dialogues at the sewing circles, and through these processes of art making create opportunities to heal from these traumas.
Your support will be used to complete the current quilts in the series with an emphasis on Quilt V, The Making Quilt, as well as community-based events which center sewing, healing and exhibition of the quilts.
Learn More: https://www.thelynchquiltsproject.com/