2012 Festival Blog - Creativity and Crisis

When The Names Project Foundation came to the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage conference room in Spring 2011 toRead More

The Women’s Collective was founded in 1993 by Patricia Nalls as a safe place for women and girls living withRead More

On March 3, 2012, a team from The NAMES Project Foundation came to The Women’s Collective in Washington, D.C., toRead More

Gert McMullin, one of the original volunteers with The AIDS Memorial Quilt, reflects on her experiences during the early stagesRead More

The 2012 Folklife Festival was closed on one day due to storm damage. The Smithsonian and Festival teams worked tirelesslyRead More

Mike Smith, co-founder of The NAMES Project Foundation, discusses the inspirational power of The AIDS Memorial Quilt. Through the storyRead More

Known as the “Yo-Yo Queen” for her use of fabric medallions (yo-yos) to decorate quilts, Marquetta Bell-Johnson translates her skillsRead More

Gert McMullin and Jada Harris of The NAMES Project Foundation share stories of “Quilt Magic,” the serendipity that surrounds TheRead More

She wears a black appliquéd mini panel that reads “Handmaidens of The Quilt,” making it easy to identify which womanRead More

Today we bring you a selection of our very favorite visitor images from the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in ourRead More