The Morning Bell Quilt is a community art project centering students' voices on the impacts of gun violence in schools.
After the elementary school shooting in Uvalde Texas, 31 students from two elementary schools in Oakland, Prescott Elementary and Manzanita Seed Community Schools, were asked how gun violence impacted them. Their teachers had them use art as part of a larger discussion to express their worries, frustrations, fears, hopes, and dreams surrounding this issue. Bay Area women then transferred that art to fabric to make this quilt.
The Morning Bell Project’s name is evocative of a school bell, a new day, a call to action, and in its use of the word “morning,” reminds us of “mourning” in the wake of Sandy Hook, Uvalde, and other school shootings.
The Morning Bell Quilt will be on display in the lobby of the West Oakland Branch until the end of May 2024.
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