These fiber art pieces explore major issues in the news from climate change to attacks on democracy. I’m interested in the power of messaging when presented in quilt form. Culturally, people are disarmed by quilts due to their association with family, heritage, care-giving, and warmth. I’m interested in the tension of using those associations to deliver blunt and urgent messages. Carrying these quilts in protests is part of an ongoing experiment in blurring the lines between speech, activism, and art.