The Quilt Project

Community is a broad term. We hear it all the time, in so many forms - global, economic, financial, religious, agricultural, familial, educational, and so on. There are these larger, sweeping communities, yes - and there are also the communities that we belong to. The term might be broad, but we know it well. Community is our family, our neighborhood, our friends, our work. Community is the group we, as individuals, choose to take part in. In this group, we find peace, progress, support and livelihood.

Building these communities is one of humankinds most beautiful habits. Yet in the Western world, we tend to see communities as a fiscal/economic/political entity and this is a limited viewpoint. Our project aims to glimpse over the shoulder of this boundaried definition of community, to find out what it really means to us, in all of its wondrous forms.

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