“Alzheimer’s Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope” will be shown at the American Quilters Society Quilt Show & Contest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, August 22-25, 2012.
Fifty-four small format art quilts (9″ x 12″) illustrate the disease from a variety of perspectives. These small quilts hang among 182 “Name Quilts,” each 6 inches wide and 7 feet tall, which carry the names of more than 10,000 individuals who have/had Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. The names of loved ones, written on fabric patches by family members and friends, honor the 5.4 million Americans in the United States struggling with Alzheimer’s disease.
We are asking everyone who attends the show in Grand Rapids to get stickered at the AAQI exhibit. Anyone in an AAQI apron should be able to get you a sticker. To help encourage others to see the exhibit, please FaceBook a photo of you and your sticker to your status update and to the AAQI wall at https://www.facebook.com/AAQI.News
Please also leave a written comment about your feelings after viewing the exhibit. Your comments are the paychecks for our supporters who donated the quilts in the exhibit.If you are at the AQS show on Saturday afternoon, please come by the AAQI exhibit and say hi. Debbie Chenail (AAQI treasurer) and I will be at the exhibit and we would love to meet you.
Ami Simms
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The only day I can make it is Friday so I will miss seeing you….but I wouldn’t miss viewing it! Can hardly wait to see if I can find the patches I submitted.
I’ll be there on Wednesday.
Me too! See you there!!