Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois
Spurlock Museum
600 S. Gregory St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 333-2360
Hours
November 10, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
November 11, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
November 12, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
November 17, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
November 18, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
November 19, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
November 24, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
November 25, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
November 26, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 1, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 2, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 3, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 8, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 9, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 10, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 15, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 16, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 17, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 22, 2021
9:00am - 5:00pm
December 23, 2021
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December 24, 2021
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December 29, 2021
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December 30, 2021
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December 31, 2021
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January 5, 2022
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January 6, 2022
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January 7, 2022
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January 12, 2022
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January 13, 2022
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January 14, 2022
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January 19, 2022
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January 20, 2022
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January 21, 2022
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January 26, 2022
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January 27, 2022
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January 28, 2022
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February 2, 2022
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February 3, 2022
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February 4, 2022
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February 9, 2022
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February 10, 2022
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February 11, 2022
9:00am - 5:00pm
February 16, 2022
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February 17, 2022
9:00am - 5:00pm
February 18, 2022
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February 23, 2022
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February 24, 2022
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February 25, 2022
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March 2, 2022
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March 3, 2022
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March 4, 2022
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March 9, 2022
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March 10, 2022
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March 11, 2022
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March 16, 2022
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March 17, 2022
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March 18, 2022
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March 23, 2022
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March 24, 2022
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March 25, 2022
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March 30, 2022
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March 31, 2022
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April 1, 2022
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April 6, 2022
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April 7, 2022
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April 8, 2022
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April 13, 2022
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April 14, 2022
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April 15, 2022
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April 20, 2022
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April 21, 2022
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April 22, 2022
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April 27, 2022
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April 28, 2022
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April 29, 2022
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May 4, 2022
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May 5, 2022
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May 6, 2022
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May 11, 2022
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May 12, 2022
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May 13, 2022
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May 18, 2022
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May 19, 2022
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May 20, 2022
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May 25, 2022
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May 26, 2022
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May 27, 2022
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June 1, 2022
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June 2, 2022
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June 3, 2022
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June 8, 2022
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June 9, 2022
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June 10, 2022
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June 15, 2022
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June 16, 2022
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June 17, 2022
9:00am - 5:00pm
June 22, 2022
9:00am - 5:00pm
June 23, 2022
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June 24, 2022
9:00am - 5:00pm
June 29, 2022
9:00am - 5:00pm
June 30, 2022
9:00am - 5:00pm
July 1, 2022
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July 6, 2022
9:00am - 5:00pm
July 7, 2022
9:00am - 5:00pm
The AIDS Memorial Quilt began as a grassroots effort in 1985, by the activist Cleve Jones and others in his circle who wanted to document the lives of friends who had died of AIDS, and who they feared history would neglect. Their project was called the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. On October 11, 1987, the quilt was displayed for the first time on the National Mall in Washington, DC, during the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. It was larger than a football field and included 1,920 panels. By 1988, there were 6,000 panels. Today, the National AIDS Memorial is the keeper of the more than 50,000 quilt panels, commemorating 105,000 individuals who died of AIDS. In all, more than 700,000 lives in the US have been lost to AIDS and more than 1.1 million people live with HIV.
We are honored to be showcasing some of these quilt panels in our new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois. The exhibit features over a dozen panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the AIDS Memorial Quilt by residents of Central Illinois. Each of the panels in the exhibit commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment.
