The following announcement was made by Marsha MacDowell:
The Michigan State University Museum and the MSU College of Human Medicine have launched a Quilts and Health Project; see
http://quiltsandhealth.wordpress.com/about/. This blog is a first
step in building a community of individuals who make, use, and study health-related quilts.
Bloggers are Beth Donaldson, Clare Luz, and Marsha MacDowell all based at Michigan State University.
About the blog: “Name a disease or illness and you will find at least one quilt related to this disease that has been made in support of
personal well-being, health education, patient advocacy, memorialization of victims, and/or fundraising. For some diseases you
will find not just one quilt but literally thousands as in the case of the NAMES AIDS Quilt Project. Collectively, the number of quilts
made and used by individuals, their caregivers and advocates, and by health professionals around the world is in the tens of thousands.
The number of quilts is staggering.”
Update on 1/3/2012: Subsequently, an article was published about this topic, written by Marsha MacDowell, for Quilter’s Newsletter magazine.
This announcement is provided courtesy of Quilter’s Muse Publications, Concord, NH.
