Monument Quilt Displays

From 2013-2019, the Monument Quilt was displayed 50 times in 33 different cities across the US and in Mexico. Here are images of some of those displays. FORCE partnered with over 100 organizations across the US and in Mexico, to organize 50 Quilt displays in 33 different cities. Cities include, in order from most recent: Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; Madison, NJ; Houston, TX; Athens, OH; Fort Belvoir, VA; Towson, MD; Mexico City, Mexico; San Francisco, CA; El Paso, TX; Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; Santa Barbara, CA; Valley Center, CA; Tempe, AZ; Tulsa, OK; Fort Hood, TX; Annapolis, MD; Fort Meade, MD; Washington, DC; Nashville, TN; Jacksonville, FL; Oklahoma City, OK; Middleton, CT; Queens, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; Durham, NC; Oshkosh, WI; Chicago, IL; White River, SD; Quapaw, OK; Des Moines, IA; Baton Rouge, LA; Birmingham, AL; Arden, NC.

The Monument Quilt in Baltimore, MD and Washington DC, for the first two displays. September 2013 and March 2014. Images by Casey McKeel and Theresa Keil
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Images from the 2014 Tour of the Monument Quilt, visiting Arden, NC; Birmingham, AL; Baton Rouge, LA; Quapaw, OK; Des Moines, IA; White River, SD; Oshkosh, WI; Chicago, IL; Pittsburgh, PA; Queens, NY; Durham, NC; Baltimore, MD, and Middletown, CT. Photos by Hannah Brancato, Rebecca Nagle, David Sloan, Erin Arledge, Jennifer Craft, Eric Salmon, and Brittany Oliver.
2015 displays and protests, including a consent rally in Annapolis, MD; Free Marissa Now display in Jacksonville, FL; Display at Johns Hopkins University; Rally for Tondalalo Hall in Oklahoma City, OK; Display at the University of Tulsa; Gathering of Voices: Addressing Sexual Violence in Indian Country in Oklahoma City; display at Towson University; and the Quilt Walk for Justice to protest the Dollar General vs Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians case, Washington DC. Photos by Hannah Brancato and Rebecca Nagle.
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2016 Displays in Baltimore, MD for Not Alone Baltimore; Washington DC, as part of the Longest Walk organized by AIM; and a display and performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Images by Hannah Brancato, David Sloan, Rebecca Nagle and Tara Sloane.
2017 displays at Towson University, Ohio University, Fort Beloir, VA and Rita Church Community Center in Baltimore; and the West Coast tour to Okmulgee, OK; Fort Hood, TX; Arizona State University; San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, CA; University of Santa Barbara; across the US/Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, TX; and City College of San Francisco. Photos by Hannah Brancato and Rebecca Nagle.
2018 and 2019 displays at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Drew University. Photos by Hannah Brancato.
2019 display of the Monument Quilt on the National Mall. Photos by Nate Gregorio, Nate Larson, Madison Trotman, Theresa Keil and Lizz Scott.

Partner organizations who organized these displays include:

  • Drew University Title IX Office
  • JHU Center for Health and Wellness, SARU, LGBTQ Life at JHU, and Women and Gender Resources
  • University of Maryland Baltimore County Women’s Center
  • Rothko Chapel
  • Ohio University Women’s Center, Ohio University Multicultural Center, Ohio University LGBT Center and many more departments
  • Rita Church Community Center
  • Fort Belvoir SHARP Resource Center and AFSC SHARP
  • Case Western University
  • Towson University Center for Student Diversity
  • San Francisco City College Women’s Studies/Project SURVIVE, Physical Education Department and Student Health Services
  • La Casa Mandarina, Bordamos Por la Paz, UTEP – Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Center Against Sexual and Family Violence; Violence Intervention Program, Inc., Mujeres en Movimiento, Make the Road NY, Feminismo Consciente and Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez (UACJ)
  • Queens Museum, Immigrant Movement International
  • La Jolla Band, San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians
  • Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition, American Indian Graduate Student Association, Cocopah Tribe, and Arizona State University
  • Muscogee (Creek) Nation Family Violence Prevention
  • Take Back the Night University of California Santa Barbara
  • Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Histora (ENAH) National School of Anthropology and History
  • Hospital Psiquiatrico Infantil Juan N. Navarro (Children’s Psychiatric Hospital Dr. Juan N. Navarro)
  • The Armed Forces’ Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) Program
  • Colgate University
  • NMAI – National Museum of the American Indian
  • Fort Meade SHARPP Program
  • Station North Arts and Entertainment, Inc, Motor House, Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation, Strong CityBaltimore, TurnAround, Inc, Maryland Institute College of Art, University of Baltimore, AAUW Younger Women’s Task Force, Hollaback! Baltimore, Free State Legal, the Family Arts Museum, and Baltimore Collegetown Network,  SART Baltimore Community Partners, Baltimore City Mayor’s Office on Criminal Justice, American Visionary Art Museum, Phynyx Ministries, Salem Lutheran, and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland (GLCCB)
  • National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Indian Law Resource Center
  • TN Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence and Nashville Sexual Assault Center
  • Escuela Primaria Instituto Siglo XXI (Elementary School Institue Century XXI)
  • Ultraviolet
  • Oklahoma Native Alliance Against Violence
  • Free Marissa Now
  • Students at Wesleyan University and Wesleyan Feminist Underground
  • Carnegie Mellon University Student Life Office, Hollaback! Pittsburg, New Voices Pittsburg, National Sexual Assault Conference, National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR), Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, Stop Sexual Assault in the Military, United Steelworkers Women of Steel, Wheeling Vet Center and Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) of Pittsburgh Center of Race & Gender Equity
  • Rape Victims Advocates, Mujeres Latinas en Accion, Project NIA, Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Young Girls & Young Women, Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Project&, Jane M. Saks, Chicago Women’s Health Center, Affinity Community Health Services, R.A.C.E.S
  • North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Orange County Rape Crisis Center (OCRCC), Shaw University Counseling Center, Kiran Inc., REACH of Macon County, Durham Crisis Response Center, North Carolina Central University Women’s Center and Johnson C. Smith University
  • University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Women’s Center and REACH Counseling
  • White Buffalo Calf Women Society, Tokala Inajinyo Suicide Prevention Mentoring Program, Defending Childhood Initiative (DCI), Domestic Violence Program Initiative, Rosebud Sioux Tribe
  • LEAD Agency and Quapaw’s Tribe Domestic Violence Program
  • Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa, Latinas Unidas por un Nuevo Amanecer (LUNA), Deaf Iowans Against Abuse (DIAA), Meskwaki, WOCAN (Women of Color Advisory Network) is part of the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, People of Color Queer Allies Trans, Nisaa African Women’s Project
  • Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR) and LSU Women’s Center
  • Crisis Center, INC Birmingham
  • Alternate Roots
  • Spiritual Empowerment Center, Baltimore

Sponsors and partners for the culminating Monument Quilt display include:

Premiere Sponsor:

  • Open Society Foundation

Leadership Sponsor:

  • Robert W Deutsch Foundation
  • Jane Brown

Gold Sponsors:

  • District of Columbia Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants
  • Eva Fury
  • Catharine Kappauf and Clarke Hitch
  • Shelley and Charles Kappauf
  • Gretchen Rohr

Silver Sponsors:

  • Maryland Institute College of Art
  • Doreen Bolger
  • Twig George
  • Robbye Apperson

Bronze Sponsors:

  • Lanningsmith Studios
  • Hopeworks of Howard County
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts
  • National Women’s Law Center
  • Susan Hayes Enterprises
  • T Rowe Price Foundation
  • Cricket Arrison
  • John and Virginia Hitch
  • Rachel Smith

Friends and Allies:

  • Artist and Craftsmen
  • Asana Consulting
  • DC Rape Crisis Center
  • Ms Magazine
  • National Alliance to End Sexual Violence
  • Figure 53
  • Station North Tool Library
  • Virginia Action Alliance
  • La Casa Mandarina
  • MiLiFe Enterprise
  • Michele Beaulieux
  • David Bogen
  • John Brothers
  • Nancy Lawton
  • Matt Morgan

Programming and In Kind Partners:

Thank you to the foundations funding FORCE’s work at the time of the culminating Monument Quilt display: