Quilting Arts

HOPE

by Pam Rocco

Threads of

Front cover Vision Quilt panels from top left to right were

created by: Tess Connerty, Regina Gilligan, Deborah Provost,

Christina Salter, Bruce Fowler, Camila Cortez, Jose Serrano,

Carol Nyhoff, and Michelle Richotte.

Imagine an end to gun violence

through quilting

Committed to transforming

a culture of fear and isolation,

mass shootings and suicides to

something else, Cathy founded

Vision Quilt, a nonprofi t

organization whose mission is to

empower communities to create

solutions to gun violence through

art and inclusive dialogue.

Vision Quilt challenges us to

consider how to create a country

C

athy DeForest

doesn’t look like a

rabble-rouser. Soft-spoken

and unassuming, she looks

more like a printmaker and

book artist—her full-time

occupation until recently.

Two years ago, Cathy had an

idea—if we could conceive

of a society without gun

violence, then it would be

possible.