A Portland sewing studio seeks to build community, finds inspiration in AIDS Memorial Quilt [Video]

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Post date December 21, 2022

Sincere Studio is a nonprofit, community-focused sewing center which opened this month in Northeast Portland. Founder Frances Andonopoulos finds inspiration in awareness-raising projects like the AIDS Memorial Quilt, a quilting arts installation first displayed in 1987 that memorialized those lost to AIDS and helped people understand the impact of the disease.

Andonopoulos says they hope to provide “textile arts education with a focus on sewing as a tool of social change and empowerment.”

“Sewing, it feels very intimate,” says Andonopoulos, “both physically very close to people, and emotionally very close to people.”

In this still taken from a video, a sewing machine sits on a table at a Sincere Studio quilting bee, which took place on Dec. 4, 2022.

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A Chicago-born textile artist, Andonopoulos now lives and works in Portland. They first learned how to make quilts while they were going to school in Minnesota. “The woman that ran the bookshop of …

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