The September 11 Quilt Project

Posted in On This Date by Christy

We Watched by Robin Schwalb

72”x36” / Cotton fabrics, stenciled, photo silk-screened. Hand and machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted
National September 11 Memorial Museum, NYC

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East Village resident Drunell Levinson…announced the September 11 Quilts Memorial project on a website she created especially for that purpose. Calling on volunteers to submit 3’x 6’ or 3’x 3’ quilt panels, she left the choice of materials and the interpretation to the individual artists…By September 10, 2002, the project consisted of 94 unique quilts accompanied by artists’ statements, photographs, memorabilia, emails, and a dedicated website. ~https://www.911memorial.org/

Photographs are from “September 11 Quilts”
See more at https://www.september11quilts.org/index.html

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September 9, 1971~ Attica Prison uprising begins

Posted in African American Visual Artists, Black American Visual Artists, On This Date, Women Artists by Christy

United States of Attica by Faith Ringgold

1972 / Offset lithograph / 21 5/8”x27 3/8” / Various collections

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September 7, 1901~ The Boxer Rebellion formally ends

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The recapture of Tianjin by Unknown Artist

1900 / Color woodblock print / Various collections, including Library of Congress
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Battles of the Boxer Rebellion~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Battles_of_the_Boxer_Rebellion

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5Sep2019

September 5, 1977~ NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft

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The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park by Ansel Adams

1942 (Negative) / Gelatin silver print / This photo was one of the images included on the Golden Record
launched into space on both Voyager spacecrafts

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The Golden Record Both Voyager spacecrafts carry a greeting to any form of life, should that be encountered. The message is carried by a phonograph record—a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages. ~ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/fast-facts/