Exhibition opens Nov 7
The People’s Building
9995 E Colfax
Our first community stitching will be
Nov 15 at 4 pm at the
Aurora MLK Library Maker Space
9898 E Colfax
Additional events to be announced!
(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.
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.
Dec 30: Last day of exhibition/de-install (tbd)
The exhibition venue is not open for regular hours to the public, but you can contact Heather to schedule a visit.
Download exhibition program
(click image)
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.