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Patchwork made entirely for recycled t-shirts, hand and machine quilted.

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The banner in progress. The group is nearing the end of the project and, committed to finishing, worked from 9:30 to 3:30 in the Cafe to add the flowers and the 'Rooted in Faith' to the bottom. Only a few more things to do before its finished.

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Some of the final details of the banner were added this week as the group at Gorton SAFE Community Cafe draw close to the end of the project.

It was suggested by a member of the community that we incorporate the new slogan into the design and the group felt it would work nicely to balance the bottom half.

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This is the completed quilt after Out Of School exhibition at Manchester School of Art, organised and run by the Centre for Engagement through Art and Design.

The materials available for visitors were yarn and coloured straws. Some people liked simply to sew, other used the straws as embellishment or beadwork. We also had a 3D structure created from straws, utilizing the bend in the straw to create a landscape!

#manchester school of art #quilting #quilt #sewing #schools #families

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Participatory Quilting at Out of School Exhibition, Manchester School of Art. This is an exhibition of schools art work and we run interactive workshops throughout the week. Here a class parts on a new colourful canvas made for the exhibition.

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The result of 6 days of sewing and an estimated 300 participants, this quilt forms part of my final degree show exhibition at Manchester School of Art.

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Opening Night - 'Participatory Quilting' opened to the public last night, and these are the first participants! A great night and good response the task! Follow updates via twitter @ellielivermore #participatoryquilting

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My degree show opens and you are invited to contribute to 'Participatory Quilting' as well as look around the rest of the Manchester Art School. If you are Manchester based, come along and sew! 5pm - 9pm on Friday, open until Wednesday 19th!

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Testing different texts for the wall.

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Potential images for degree show catalog.

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For Bishop, art can become legit­im­ately “polit­ical” only indir­ectly, by expos­ing the lim­its and con­tra­dic­tions of polit­ical dis­course itself (the viol­ent exclu­sions impli­cit in demo­cratic con­sensus, for example) from the quasi-detached per­spect­ive of the artist. In this view, artists who choose to work in alli­ance with spe­cific col­lect­ives, social move­ments, or polit­ical struggles will inev­it­ably be con­signed to dec­or­at­ing floats for the annual May Day parade. Without the detach­ment and autonomy of con­ven­tional art to insu­late them, they are doomed to “rep­res­ent,” in the most naïve and facile man­ner pos­sible, a given polit­ical issue or con­stitu­ency.

From Grant Kester's response to Claire Bishop's 'Another Turn'

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Week 7 of Gorton Community Art Project

We are making real progress on the piece! Two finished, two very nearly finished. We are considering adding a panel at the bottom that reads 'Rooted in Faith' which is the new catch phrase for the Parish. The team are really taking possession of the task now. It was particularly good this week as we ironed on the details for the gardening and cafe scene and you get a much better sense of the piece now.