CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 13, 2016. A quilting project that memorializes people killed by Chicago police will be on display in Roosevelt University’s 10th floor Murray-Green Library, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, beginning Monday, October 17.
Created in a series of community quilting circles and conversations across Chicago in 2015 and 2016, the project called “Gone But Not Forgotten” features six quilts stretching nearly 40 feet in length that were sewn by more than 200 people.
Names, ages and dates of death of 144 people killed by Chicago police since 2006 are recorded on the six quilt panels that have never before been publicly displayed as a single unit.
An opening night reception with remarks from family members of Chicagoans killed by police and a presentation by artist Rachel Wallis and the group We Charge Genocide, who collaborated together on the project that is supported by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and the Illinois Arts Council, will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday, October 17.
Sponsored by Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, the quilting project is part of Media Literacy Week and will be on display through Thursday, October 27. Special exhibition events include a quilting circle, which will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 25, a day-long symposium with panels and workshops on the movement against police violence, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Roosevelt’s second-floor Congress Lounge, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, on Thursday, October 27 and a closing reception that will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on October 27 in the University’s library.
For more information about this event, contact the Mansfield Institute’s Nancy Michaels at 312-341-2150.
Source: http://roosevelt.edu