ADDITIONAL EXHIBITS
SMALL-SCALE EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

March 10 – April 2

AIDS Memorial Quilt
Screening Room

Created in 1987, The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a poignant memorial and the world's largest ongoing community arts project.  Each "block" (or section) of the quilt is approximately 12 feet square and typically consists of eight individual three by six foot panels sewn together. Virtually every one of over 40,000 colorful panels in the quilt memorializes a life lost to AIDS.

The quilt has been a tremendous tool in raising consciousness about the threat of AIDS, the losses we have all suffered because of this terrible disease, and the reconciliation that many have found because of this effort. The FAC joins the Southern Colorado AIDS Project and Pine Creek High School’s “Eyes Wide Open “ program in presenting the quilt for display.

March 26 – June 20

Wounded Warriors Exhibition
Family Discovery Gallery

In January and February, the FAC and Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group held an 11-week course called “Military Creative Expressions” for Wounded Warriors, military personnel suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The art work that resulted from the course will be on display during Conflict | Resolution in the Family Discovery Gallery.

Recovering from combative post-traumatic stress can be described as a three-part process: physical and psychological stabilization, discussion of the traumatic event, and exploration of management of the after effects. This program uses creative processes to externalize the trauma’s impact and to explore ways of managing its effects through art therapy.

April 6 – May 2

Poetry While You Wait
Screening Room

Poetry While You Wait is a major community-wide effort of the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project. In honor of National Poetry Month and in response to the FAC’s Conflict | Resolution programs, Poetry While You Wait is designing an interactive experience in which poets, both professional and aspiring, can create their own reflections on our collective experience with conflict and resolution.

May 8 – 30

The Courage To Remember: The Holocaust 1933-1945
Screening Room

Presented by The Greenberg Center for Learning and Tolerance, this multimedia exhibit from the Simon Wiesenthal Center offers compelling new insights into the Holocaust through four major themes:

Nazi Germany, 1933-1938
Moving Toward the “Final Solution” 1939-1941
Annihilation in Nazi-occupied Europe, 1941-1945
Liberation: Building New Lives

The 20 poster exhibit is accompanied by video history presentations of two local Holocaust survivors and a liberator of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

May 18 – 30

The Lost Heroes Art Quilt
Glass Corridor Landing

A tribute to courageous men and women who have given their lives in service to our nation in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Lost Heroes Art Quilt was created by artist Julie Feingold as a non-political work.

This dramatic, mixed media fabric artwork features 82 heroes who reflect the diversity of America – 50 in the central quilt representing each state in the U.S. and 32 around the border. A photograph and poignant words describing the person’s unique personality, dreams, plans, interests and hopes appear around each hero’s square on the Quilt, permanently memorializing each life.

A poetic message from the artist and symbols of the world’s major religions also appear on the Quilt, which took more than two years to complete.