Cover Them

A quilt exhibit by Rachael Brumer
At the
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON
September 5, 2001 to January 27, 2002

The Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) will present a quilt exhibit in the
fall of 2001 entitled "Cover Them". The exhibit features 10 remarkable
art quilts by Seattle artist Rachel Brumer. In an effort to better
identify with the 11,000 children listed in the book , French Children
of the Holocaust by Serge Klarsfeld, Brumer selected ten little girls
who shared her birthday and created a quilt in each one's memory.

The Museum hopes to fulfill the artist's vision by placing a stack of
"Children's Quilts" at the end of the exhibit that is intended to
provide the children of today with comfort and joy.

Cover Them has been shown twice before, in New York and in Seattle.
Both times the artist made all the "Children's Quilts" included in the
stack. After both exhibits Rachael received letters from the visitors
thanking her for her inclusion of the "Children's Quilts" and described
the journey of the quilt they took.

One person gave the quilt to the Salvation Army Children's Clinic in
their area. Another entrusted the quilt to a friend who was traveling
to Romania. The friend gave the quilt to a child in an orphanage. A
third person wrote about donating the quilt to the Red Cross in China.

With Rachel's blessing we have developed a community approach to
creating the stack. Beryl Myers, a Houston quiltmaker and Lynn Lewis
Young, editor and publisher of Art/Quilt Magazine, are heading up this
effort. What began as a telephone campaign has grown to include a call
for quilts on the flyer accompanying issue #13 of Art/Quilt Magazine and
is now on the internet. You may want to check out the museum's
website by clicking below:

This exhibit is underwritten by Salomon Smith Barney, a member of
citigroup with a grant from the Quilt Guild of Greater Houston and
contributions by The Front Porch Quilt Shop and Hobbs Batting Co.

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