Special Events
Special Events for Featured Artist
Agusta Agustusson
We are very excited to host Agusta Agustsson and her project
The project, as envisioned by Textile Artist Agusta Agustsson, is to make a large, crowd-sourced community quilt to support women’s health and reproductive rights. The “Courthouse Steps” pattern is a reference to the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Blocks will be created by everyone who wants to contribute!
Community participants can voice their support through a signature or a slogan or quote. Finished blocks will be assembled into one or more large community quilts for display.
Featured Artist Upcoming Events
July 30, 2022
Join us on July 30 for two events:
Sew4Rights.org Square-Making Event 12 pm - 3 pm
Register for Square-Making Event Here
Augusta Agustusson Artist Talk - 5 pm
Artist Statement
The Courthouse Steps and Sew4Rights Rage Squares
"I organized the Courthouse Steps and Rage Squares in response to the Supreme Court’s reconsideration of Roe v Wade. I didn’t want to create a solo piece. I wanted to amplify the voices of many women. The form was inspired by quilts in the Museum of Fine Arts exhibition, “Fabric of a Nation”. One was a signature quilt in support of women’s suffrage and another was a Gee’s Bend quilt of the courthouse steps pattern.
I also had a quilt in the exhibition, “Blanket of Red Flowers”. It was made in the Seventies, a heady time for women’s right. As I read about the Justice’s deliberations about Roe last December I knew that today’s young women would not have the rights and experiences I had as a young woman. I knew I had to show women’s voices and feelings. Rather than signatures as in the suffrage quilt there are words from women’s hearts. The courthouse steps pattern was the perfect vehicle for presenting these feelings.
When Alito’s opinion was leaked even though I was expecting it, I was enraged. The formality of the courthouse steps no longer seemed adequate to express the rage. Other women felt the same. The idea of Rage Squares was born. Women responded immediately.
The quilts have already been to protests. I expect them to go to many more as we work to undo the damage from this Supreme Court."
Recent Events
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Marine Heatwaves
by Deb Ehrens
Artist Talk with collaborating Scientists from
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute:
Caroline Ummenhofer, Phd. and Svenja Ryan, Phd.
Open to the public
Thursday June 9
"Art as Fashion / Fashion as Art"
First annual group show May 15 to 29, 2021
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Online Artist and Designer Talks
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NB Creative Instagram Take-Over
New Bedford Creative hosted SoCoSD for a full day Instagram Take Over.
Thank you New Bedford Creative!!
Click here to see the story on Instagram
and Select "Adrian" in NB Creative Instagram Stories
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