Color image of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt at the Metrodome, 1988.

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt at the Metrodome

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt at the Metrodome, 1988. Photograph by Manuel Miranda III.

Color image of a quilt panel memorializing Thomas Ralston and Robert Lausten, 1988.

Quilt panel memorializing Thomas Ralston and Robert Lausten

Quilt panel memorializing Thomas Ralston and Robert Lausten, 1988. Panel made by Kelly Minard. The photograph is from the Minnesota Names Quilt Project Report manuscript collection held at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Color image of a quilt panel memorializing Jack Wagner, 1988.

Quilt panel memorializing Jack Wagner

Quilt panel memorializing Jack Wagner, 1988. Panel made by Lynne Wagner and Mary Majors. The photograph is from the Minnesota Names Quilt Project Report manuscript collection held at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Color image of a quilt panel memorializing 212 Minnesotans who had died of AIDS, 1988.

Quilt panel memorializing 212 Minnesotans who died of AIDS

Quilt panel memorializing 212 Minnesotans who died of AIDS, 1988. Panel made by Leah Hassett, Barb Sarapas, and many others. The photograph is from the Minnesota Names Quilt Project Report manuscript collection held at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Color image of a quilt panel memorializing Emilian Reznicek, 1988.

Quilt panel memorializing Emilian Reznicek

Quilt panel memorializing Emilian Reznicek, 1988. Panel made by Jim Chalgren, Don, Bill Kummer, Bill Rogers, Marcia Ritterling, Judith Hentges, and Susan Hentges. The photograph is from the Minnesota Names Quilt Project Report manuscript collection held at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Color image of a quilt panel memorializing Enrique Martinez, 1988.

Quilt panel memorializing Enrique Martinez

Quilt panel memorializing Enrique Martinez, 1988. Panel made by Dan L. The photograph is from the Minnesota Names Quilt Project Report manuscript collection held at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Color image of a quilt panel memorializing Chuck and Bryan, 1988.

Quilt panel memorializing Chuck and Bryan

Quilt panel memorializing Chuck and Bryan, 1988. Panel made by Gay Lesbian Outreach, Albert Lea. The photograph is from the Minnesota Names Quilt Project Report manuscript collection held at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Color image of a quilt panel memorializing Jeff Buzzetti, 1988.

Quilt panel memorializing Jeff Buzzetti

Quilt panel memorializing Jeff Buzzetti, 1988. Panel made by Betty and Buzz Buzzetti. The photograph is from the Minnesota Names Quilt Project Report manuscript collection held at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Color image of a quilt panel memorializing an “anonymous uncle,” 1988.

Quilt panel memorializing an “anonymous uncle”

Quilt panel memorializing an “anonymous uncle,” 1988. Panel made by Dan Becker of the Minnesota Quilt Committee. The photograph is from the Minnesota Names Quilt Project Report manuscript collection held at the Minnesota Historical Society.

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt display, Minneapolis

Begun in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco in 1987, the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt grew into a nationwide community art project memorializing those who had been killed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Lovers, families, and friends of people who had died sewed quilt panels; others created them for individuals they had never met. In 1988, the quilt embarked on a national twenty-city tour and arrived at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis on July 16.

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