"Stitching the Situation" engages community members at Downtown Boulder's [placeholder] Festival.

In 2022 and 2023, the Office of Arts + Culture's Experiments in Public Art program worked with accelerator Farm to Spaceship to bring unique temporary art to Boulder.

Project Overview

This project, conceived by Heather Schulte and entitled "Stitching the Situation," invited community members to embroider a visual story of the pandemic and its effect on our community. Schulte hoped that the project would connect local people suffering adverse effects of the pandemic with illustrators, designers, and artists to create visual images of their experiences to be stitched into a visual format.

The piece was part of the Office of Arts + Culture's Experiments in Public Art program. We partnered with Farm to Spaceship, a local accelerator program "that pairs local artists, designers, foodies, scientists, businesses, entrepreneurs, engineers, and community leaders to develop experiential offerings that are good for the community and exciting to customers."

Artist Heather Shulte waving behind her "Stitching Together" booth.
The stitching project in the midst of work being done.
A page explaining "Stitching the Situation" project.
Artist and community members engaging with the stitching project.
Two tents at the Downtown Boulder [placeholder] festival.
The Stitching the Situation tent at the festival.
Two people interacting with the stitching project.
Photo of community members interacting with the project
Community members interacting with the project.
Community members interacting with the project.
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