From – May 3, 2010
According to the website Reflector.com the After School Art program for the ECU School of Art and Design had a special project. Sixteen of the participating third, fourth and fifth grade student received a lesson in quilting and community service.
During a special art show Monday, 16 young local artists will present to the Ronald McDonald House of Greenville a friendship quilt that they made with the help of one of their East Carolina University student instructors.
Sounds like a wonderful way to expose these students to the world of quilting and to have them participate in community awareness. They are able to learn to give but also that quilt making is indeed an art form.
That the teachers used quilting as a vehicle to serve the community is completely in keeping with the cooperative spirit alive and well in quilting circles.
Whether we are talking about the Aids quilts, Quilts of Valor, quilts for displaced children or the quilts made for the ill, the quilting world has a long and involved history of reaching out and sharing. A local woman makes scrap quilts for the local animal shelter. Guilds all over the world focus on one charity or another. Google “charity quilt” and find several hundred thousand results from free patterns to causes to organizations whose primary function is to provide quilts for those in need of a good snuggle.
From the Quilts of Valor Website at http://www.qovf.org
It is wonderful that the teachers at the ECU School of Art and Design chose this method of expression and hopefully, several of the students will be bitten by the quilting bug. But, this is only one of the many, many recipients of quilters worldwide, past and present.
It feels so good to snuggle up in a beautiful quilt. We understand that sensation and feel a need to share, and, of course, to find those who will appreciate our gift.
To read the entire article, go to:
http://www.reflector.com/community/art-students-make-quilt-ronald-mcdonald-house-32773
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Karen Dennison
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