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Community-wide quilting workshop with Rachel Brumer, Holocaust Museum Houston

Community-wide quilting workshop with Rachel Brumer, Holocaust Museum Houston

Quilt Guild of Greater Houston members making "children's quilts"

Preschool students presenting their "children's quilt" to Holocaust Museum Houston

It makes you think, it really does. You try to see into the quilt and into the heart of its meaning. —Taylor Weaver, age 12

Your work is an excellent combination of art and history. Only through remembrance of the past and recognition of mistakes will we be able to move into a brighten future. —Wen Shen, Bellaire High School c/o 2003

I never considered the affect that quilts could have in communicating a message. This exhibit was very thought provoking.

These quilts are a work of art. They have made me think of the many things going on in the world. They have touched my life and caused me to think. I hope it has this effect on more people.

These quilts are great, well-made, with a lot of feeling, peace, and pain. I loved it. —Pedro Rodarte, W.T. Hall High School

I have come to visit this exhibit many times—bringing family members, friends, my own children and participating in the quilting project on "museum day." Each time I am struck by the quilts' symbolism and the overwhelming desire to "cover them" myself.

The show represents one of the greatest works of quilted art I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot. A magnificent body of work, endowed with layers of significance. —Eleanor Levie

Your quilts are very elaborate and mysterious. Just enough to express your thoughts and feelings. —Yvonne Duong, 12th grade

Astonishingly beautiful exhibition—moving, profound, and transcendent—all the more compelling for the use of humble materials and processes. —Ann Lancaster

As a mother I cannot express the horror and sadness I feel for the many children so brutally murdered. I will walk away from this exhibit and wrap my arms around my two children and tell them I love them. I will honor the deaths of the children killed by keep-ing their memories alive through teaching my children about their brutal and untimely deaths. This exhibit has inspired me to teach my own children how to honor and respect the lives lost.

She is such a smart girl to do this. I am giving one quilt to a kid at my school that has only one leg. I hope he will be happy. —Catarina Williams, age 9

Two quilts will be taken to the Homicide Division of the Houston Police Department to help children of violent crimes. Acts of kindness will always continue! —Sgt. J. Binford and Sgt. W. Allen

The quilts are extremely touching. I am taking a quilt home to my daughter. She is 3 yrs old. I am a Social Studies teacher from Knoxville, TN. I teach a unit on the Holocaust each year to my 6th graders. I will use the quilt in my classes as well as to teach my own children. Thank you for letting me be a part of the teaching.

Such beautiful quilts, such a generous gift. Thank you for the exhibit and small quilt I'm giving to a baby born in November, in the shadow of what was once the World Trade Center.

I took a quilt from the collection to take to the Catalina Foothills Church in Tucson, Arizona for the high school youth group to deliver to a native Indian child at the Sells reservation.

My students really liked the quilt exhibit. They have decided to take two quilts down to the children at the Star of Hope Homeless Shelter. In addition to the two quilts, they are going to collect blankets and go out and distribute them to homeless people through the Star of Hope. They felt like this was the spirit of the exhibit—to remember those who are forgotten and really need our help, like the children of the Holocaust.

This quilt will be given to a baby born to mentally disabled parents. She is currently in the in the Oklahoma foster care program in McAlister, OK. —Devonna Edwards, McAlister, OK

A beautiful little quilt will be given to a patient at Texas Children's Hospital, to make the new year one of comfort, love, and hope.

The students in the University of Houston High School Equivalency Program voted that the quilt be given to the Star of Hope Family Center. It was placed in a nice gift box and taken there last evening. I am still emotionally affected by the "Cover Them" exhibition. I think it was one of the most creative exhibitions you have had. I like the connection I feel from the tragedy of the children's deaths, which inspired the first quilt, to the creation of the entire exhibition, and then the involvement of other quilters to make more quilts to be given to babies. I love the line from death to new life and the circle of new contributors. It is a powerful experience for all of us. Our students also felt a powerful connection to the exhibition since some of them are parents of small children. They came up with the names of several shelters in the community that I didn't know, but finally settled on the Star of Hope. —Kobla Osayande