Remembrance Project
The Remembrance Project is a community art project that creates activist art banners, for local and national organizations to publicly display for solidarity, in the fight for social justice and remembrance of those lost to violence. The project remembers those lost to: authority violence (officer-involved shooting, police brutality, etc.), community violence (victims of gang violence, neighborhood or family, drive-by shooting, etc.), race (hate crimes, racially motivated, etc.), and gender and sexuality (violence against LGBTQ +, domestic violence, “missing, murdered Indigenous women,” etc.).
Would you like to get involved?
Participating in this project means sitting with your feelings and holding this person close. It means educating yourself about injustices, systemic and individual, that impacted this person’s life. It means understanding the life beyond the name, the circumstances of their death, and working to create art that informs others. Volunteers receive the name of a murdered person and work to design and create an unquilted memorial block to commemorate the life of that person. You need not be an expert artist, sewist, or quilter, but some skill in sewing, working with fabric, applique, or embroidery is necessary.
Would you like to host a banner activism event?
Remembrance Project banners travel all over the country to help educate and inform communities about the human impact of systemic violence. If you are hosting an event and would like to display Remembrance Project banners, reach out to our team.
Gallery of Remembrance Projects
