The Traveling Quilt project has taken on new energy! Read this letter from an art teacher and discover a great project that you can do with your students. After viewing her student’s work, you’ll be as inspired as we are! To celebrate the talents of these students and students around the world, we’ve developed an exciting project. Be a part of our Iditarod Virtual Traveling Quilt.
We have a hundred requests for our Traveling Quilts to visit schools around the world. It is not possible for the quilts to get everywhere so we invite you to send a quilt square to us— via Internet. Your contributions will be displayed on our website.
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Dear Diane,
I was originally in touch with you last January, when — as a volunteer art teacher for a very-talented 1st-grade class in California — I began to excite these 20 kids about Alaska. We decided to create 24 – 11 x 11″ projects, using collage materials, markers, etc. which at completion were mounted on squares of cardboard. Then, I mounted all 24 on 2 - 6-foot wide cardboard tri-fold presentation boards. This was an absolute hit in the school’s annual art show in March.
We could not have done it without the help of one of my sons who is a supervisor for the BLM in Anchorage. Jeff sent us a very generous supply of pamphlets, stickers, etc., & became our leading source of information for a very ambitious project. I’ve put all 24 projects, along with cover page and table of contents into a very “snazzy” booklet. Now, my question is — how could we get back to the Traveling Quilt project idea with these same pieces of artwork (minus the verbiage)? I know that I can transfer the images onto fabric, but would this be an acceptable — or perhaps a new/innovative way to create a quilt for your wonderful program? Please let us know what you think.
Very sincerely,
Audrey Reighley
Volunteer Art Teacher, California
To view Audrey’s project, images of the quilt squares and the information students gathered while doing the project, click here! (PDF DOC)
To learn how you can be a part of the virtual quilt, click here!
Watch the slide show for a view of each square of the quilt.
