Burlap
becomes project
By Alexis Kindig
On-line Forty-Niner
Beginning
today, 65 to 70 students will create an
enormous quilt expressing their views on
the world one year after the terrorist attacks.
The
students are creating the project as part
of University 300I, an Odyssey course entitled
“Expressive Art, Cultural Responsibility.”
They
met Wednesday in the Karl Anatol Center,
and divided into groups of five and six.
Each
group was given a piece of burlap the size
of a queen-size sheet as its canvas, and
each student will contribute a piece of
fabric to sew into the design. At the end
of the semester, the pieces of burlap will
be joined into one huge quilt.
Chad
Pregizer, who is taking the class, said
he hopes the quilt will be of help to the
campus community as a whole and to the class.
“Maybe
it will open some eyes, even our own,” Pregizer
said.
Candace
Kaye is team teaching the course with Alicia
Del Campo. Kaye had previously worked on
a quilt project to “communicate connections
between two elementary schools” in Long
Beach. Del Campo is an expert on arpilleras,
which are burlap pieces by South American
women often created as political statements.
Kaye
said the elementary school quilt project
allowed people to see “their lives connected
visually in a form that brought together
symbols of their individual lives and the
connectedness of their participation in
the community.” Kaye said the Cal State
Long Beach project will produce similar
results.
The
quilt will be displayed on campus at the
end of the semester.
“At
the least, it will be displayed on the grass
in the mall area or close by,” said Kaye.
“At the most, we would like it displayed
on the side of the Macintosh building as
a testimonial.”
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