NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/NAMES_Project_AIDS_Memorial_Quilt
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:monument
installation art
gptkbp:category Textile arts
LGBT history in the United States
AIDS memorials
gptkbp:createdBy gptkb:Cleve_Jones
gptkbp:exhibitedAt gptkb:National_Mall
gptkb:San_Francisco
gptkbp:firstDisplayed October 11, 1987
gptkbp:firstDisplayedAt gptkb:National_Mall,_Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:hasPart individual memorial panels
gptkbp:headquartersLocation gptkb:San_Francisco,_California
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
gptkbp:inception 1987
gptkbp:influenced AIDS awareness campaigns
gptkbp:influencedBy AIDS crisis
gptkbp:location gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:managedBy gptkb:NAMES_Project_Foundation
gptkbp:material gptkb:textile_industry
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:embroidery
gptkbp:movedTo gptkb:Atlanta,_Georgia
gptkbp:notableFor largest community folk art project in the world
gptkbp:numberOfNamesCommemorated over 110,000
gptkbp:pieceCount over 48,000
gptkbp:purpose memorialize people who died of AIDS
gptkbp:relatedEvent National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
gptkbp:subject gptkb:AIDS_epidemic
HIV/AIDS awareness
gptkbp:UNESCOWorldHeritageSite 2020
gptkbp:website https://www.aidsmemorial.org/
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Common_Threads:_Stories_from_the_Quilt
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6