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Oklahoma Bombing Quilt Exhibit Panel (MI)
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Oklahoma Bombing Quilt Exhibit and Programming
In recognition of the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the AFGE Memorial Quilt, along with two other quilts, is currently on display in the MSU Union building until the end of October. The quilts are displayed in the Lake Michigan Room (Room 340) on the fourth floor of the Union Building; hours for the Exhibit are 12 - 2 and 4 - 7 PM, Monday - Friday.
A panel discussion about the quilts, their importance and impact will take place this Thursday on October 30 at 4 PM.
All three of the quilts assembled in this exhibit relate to issues of community life, labor, and commemoration in a twentieth-century Oklahoma profoundly shaped by the federal government. A monumental, twelve-foot-by-fifteen-foot collaborative project of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) commemorates eighty-nine federal workers murdered in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. A machine-applique quilt by Scottish-born artist Penny Sisto assembles portraits of the nineteen children, all under the age of six, murdered in the same attack. A 1936 sampler quilt made by women paid by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) reflects the history of federal investments in Oklahoman labor and the legacy of community-created quilts in the United States.
Please don't miss the opportunity to see these important quilts and to reflect on the terrible impact of anti-government domestic terrorism.
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