There are a number of ways to be involved:
Prison Quilt Project
The Prison Quilt Project offers incarcerated men a space to learn to quilt and to design their own quilt on the theme of their experience of incarceration. This is a weekly workshop offered over the course of 8 months at Vermont’s Southern State Correctional Facility. This is a project I am facilitating, with the support of BMAC volunteers. as part of my restorative reentry work at Interaction. The quilt will be exhibited in our Brattleboro community and beyond. This project is funded by the Vermont Council for the Arts and by UVM’s Justice Research Center.
If you are a quilter or artist interested in teaching a quilting or textile workshop to the incarcerated participants of this project, please email me at marie.py@interactionvt.org.
Great Flag of Liberation Project
The Great Flag of Liberation is a meditation on the meaning of citizenship. The flag will be composed of 195 individual rakusu faces hand-stitched from jeans worn by community members & neighbors.
If you are a south-eastern Vermonter and feel called to contribute a pair of black or blue jeans to this project, please email me at mariepierrepyart@gmail.com. Heavily worn jeans and holes are most welcome.
Donate worn out quilts & fabrics
Quilts are so much more beautiful and potent to me when made from fabric already worn or treasured by family, friends, and community. I would be so grateful to receive your old, no longer wanted textiles and give them new life. Please don’t forget to include your name if you want the fabrics acknowledged when they show up in my work. I also warmly welcome the stories behind them.
Want to chat? Send me an email:
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