Nov 7 , 2025 -
Jan 4, 2026
First Friday Happy Hour 5-7 pm Jan 2nd
The People’s Building
9995 E Colfax
Venue accessibility info below
(Click image to access the digital exhibition page)
Stitching the Situation was awarded an INSITE Fund grant through RedLine Contemporary Art Center as part of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting program for 2024-2025. “Stitching for the Long Haul” partners this project with people in Colorado living with Long COVID, their caregivers, and researchers working to understand and treat the condition. Over the past year, we connected with people who were willing to share their Long COVID experience, utilizing our Story Network method, to accessibly and COVID-consciously collect, document, and present each person’s stories. We invited artists living with Long COVID to exhibit their work in our exhibition, It Comes in Waves, and sent additional stories to a group of incarcerated artists in Colorado facilities to illustrate.
Venue Acessibility Information:
-We have a variety of mask styles available onsite for anyone who needs access to some.
-Ample free parking is right behind the building, north side. It's a short walk or roll to the front of the building to the entry. **If you need a shorter distance, we can meet you at the back of the building and open one of the locked doors, just let me know**
-The 15 & 15L RTD bus line stops within a block of the building for folks who arrive via public transit. Anyone using a ride share or other means of transport is free to stop to the east of the building, on Florence St & Colfax, for drop-off.
-Gallery is on the ground floor, about 20 feet from the entry doors. Bathrooms are on the same level, about 10-15' from the gallery. View a virtual tour on TPB's website here. The space is about
-light refreshments will be available during the reception, with water and other non-A beverages. The venue has a small bar in the gallery with for-purchase alcohol. Snacks will include nut-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan options.
-We will have a couple tables with folding chairs during the reception, as well as stools for the discussion panelists.
-The galley is navigable by wheelchair and other mobility aids.
Please join us during these events:
Nov 7: Opening happy hour (masks will be available on site) 5-7 pm
Nov 15: Community stitching at Aurora MLK Library Maker Space, 4-6 pm
Dec 5: First Friday happy hour (masks will be available on site) 5-7 pm
Dec 10: 5-8 pm, masks strongly requested, reception and talk, masks provided onsite.
Recording of talks available here.
Jan 2, 2026: First Friday happy hour (masks will be available on site) 5-7 pm
Jan 4, 2026: Last day of exhibition
The exhibition venue is not open for regular hours to the public, but you can contact Heather to schedule a visit.
Download exhibition program
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How to Get Involved:
We will be exhibiting our work in Denver in November/December 2025, and hope it will be the first of our endeavors to ensure Long COVID is afforded the attention, funding, and public awareness it needs. If you would love to bring this network to your community of Long Haulers and caregivers, please reach out to us via email to discuss how this project can come to your area, and bring local people together.
How this works:
We can implement our network in a couple ways:
1- You can share this page with your community, and recruit storytellers and designers, and possibly stitchers, too, from your local area. We can discuss how to archive and exhibit these stories within your local community after next year’s event, which will require collaboration with other organizations or possible community funding partners.
2- We can coordinate our roster of designers and stitch volunteers to work with storytellers in your community.
3- You might have a better idea that fits your own community’s needs because each community knows themselves better than anyone else—get in touch if you would like to adapt this work to your needs.
And, you can always join our community of stitchers.