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rage squares now!
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
NEWS FROM AGUSTA
Check out this interview from Creative Whimsy, and get a sense of where this artist is coming from.
Agusta in the news:
Quiltmaker Agusta Agustsson, 70, of Melrose, brought a handmade quilt assembled with 20 “rage squares” to Boston Common as her expression of protest. The center square, which said ” Women’s Rights Are Human Rights,” was surrounded by personalized anecdotal squares collected from women nationwide, such as “Vasectomy prevents abortion” and “No woman has an abortion just for the fun of it.”
Agustsson began gathering the squares last January in the months leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade — “we knew where the Supreme Court was going” — and has made six quilts since then.
“They’re not meant for sale,” Agustsson said of the finished products. “It’s about awareness and engaging people’s emotions.”
“You have to be always vigilant,” Agustsson said. “People think that women have rights but we are second-class citizens, and if we don’t speak up now, we will forever remain second-class citizens.”
Boston Globe, January 22, 2023 (Alanez, “Boston Women’s March”) CLICK HERE FOR PDF VERSION
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the RAGE continues
UNTIL WOMEN ARE FULL CITIZENS
we are
MAD AS HELL
what this is about…
the project
The project, as envisioned by textile artist Agusta Agustsson, is to make a large, crowd-sourced community quilt to support women’s health and reproductive rights. The “Courthouse Steps” pattern is a reference to the Supreme Court’s coming decision on Roe v. Wade. Blocks will be created by—everyone who wants to contribute! Community participants will write on white fabric blocks in the manner of Signature Quilts. They can voice their support through a signature or a slogan or quote. Finished blocks will be assembled into one or more large community quilts for display.
about the artist
agusta agustsson
Agusta began making quilts as a painting major at Massachusetts College of Art. Concurrently, at the Graphic Workshop, she created silkscreened posters which received local, national, and international recognition. Many of her pastel landscapes can be found in corporate collections. She worked as an art teacher for 22 years. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston acquired one of her quilts in 2017. Her work has been included in the Museum’s recent publication Fabric of a Nation, a signal contribution to textile arts history that documents 400 years of quilting in America.
make a square! send words! start/join a group! do one thing—or do them all! THANKS AGAIN TO ALL WHO JOINED US FOR THE FIRST, QUILTING PHASE OF THIS PROTEST. Now we are making individual squares to show our RAGE. The project, like that in the larger world, is ongoing.
learn more
actforwomen.org is doing amazing work. please visit their site to learn in particular about the campaign for equal access.