Social Justice — Gallery — Sewing Stories

Ten Years Later

Land of the Free?

Soft purple figures behind wire painted to look like the American flag

Land of the Free?

Soft fabric purple figures work together to stitch together a quilted landscape that is torn with batting showing

Detail of tikkun olam Soft fabric purple figures work together to stitch together a quilted landscape that is torn with batting showing

Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World)

A lone soft purple figure sits in a fractured quilted landscape

Everything is Not Okay

three dimensional fiber art piece about climate change and how people are not taking the needed action

Everything is Not Okay

Innocence Lost

Fiber art piece about school shootings with one piece of black fabric for every school shooting since Sandy Hook

Dark Days: When Does it End?

Fiber art quilted wall hanging with a bright orange background to show the joy of childhood cut short by one mourning ribbon for each school shooting in the three years after Sandy Hook

Dark Days: When Does it End?

Shattered Childhood

FIber art quilt art silhouette of two young boys behind a shattered article about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary

Shattered Childhood

Fiber art installation about homeless New Yorkers ages 4-75

Fiber art quilts from the inside of an art installation about homeless New Yorkers

Temporary Shelter

Let Down Your Guard

Fiber art mixed media piece with a quilted background and layers of wire and tulle peeling away to reveal the fabric behind

Let Down Your Guard

Why is the Sky Blue?

Fiber art quilted wall hanging showing news headlines on the earth and a weeping sky

Why is the Sky Blue?

A soft purple figure made of fabric faces a black background and she tries to bring light to the darkness

Bringing Light to the Darkness

See Me 2

Fiber art quilt of a homeless person sitting behind the text of an article about homelessness

Fiber art quilted wall hanging with eyes looking through an article about homelessness

Fiber art quilted wall hanging of a red dancing figure with music notes behind using only music themed fabrics

Feeling the Beat

Fiber art quilted wall hanging of a sheer black exclamation point in a bright yellow triangle

Beyond Words

Fiber art quilted wall hanging of a word cloud showing a coach helping a gymnast on the beam

Fiber art quilted wall hanging about an autistic person who got caught in circles of thought and had trouble breaking free

Circle Thinking