Otis Students Craft 9/11 Quilt
As a way to express their feelings about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, students at the Otis School of Fashion in Los Angeles built a wooden “quilt of life” bearing more than 75 individuals’ messages, images and thoughts concerning the victims of the attacks and the current state of the country.
At a dedication ceremony last week at the school’s campus in the California Mart, students hung pieces of tiles they had decorated onto an upright frame, which was transformed into a large wooden quilt.
Bearing patriotic images of American flags and messages including “love each other” and “peace and love,” the quilt will join another one made up of about 350 tiles from Otis’ main campus and will be put on display possibly at other schools and at Los Angeles International Airport, said instructor Jeff Eamer, who helped conceive the idea for the project.
Added David Breamer, Otis professor of liberal studies, “This is really an expression of our artistic responses to this tragedy. We got together to open our hearts. We prayed and searched our souls for wisdom, and from our artistic strengthshellip;these students dreamed and came up with this wooden quilt.” —Robert McAllister
