Exhibition Reception: Friday, April 12th, 5:30pm

In partnership with NoMore Violence Week April 8th-12th, 2024, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls Public Library, Arden G Hill Memorial Library, and Cascade County Juvenile Detention Center will showcase Threads of Connection, a community quilt project.

This collaborative effort has taken place over two years with nearly 700 individual quilt squares created by individuals of all ages through over 20 workshops around the community. Participants from the Great Falls Rescue Mission Cameron Family Center, YWCA, Senior Center, Alliance for Youth, PGS Curative Art Collective, PGS Senior Art Class, Youth Court, AWARE, Easterseals-Goodwill, and the public shared their perspectives on the prevention of violence through prompts considering kindness, safety, healing, connection, action, and community.

The squares have been assembled into multiple panels by many volunteers including Falls Quilt Guild, Lewistown Quilters Guild, Kay Silk, Suzy Smith, Mary Fry, Alee Tyler, and Julie Freshly. To connect these threads, a completed monumental quilt will bring all the panels together on display in the Thayer Gallery at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art during NoMore Violence Week.

Please join us for a celebratory reception to view and honor Threads of Connection on Friday, April 12th from 5:30-7:00pm at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art.

Threads of Connection at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art is supported in part by the Montana Arts Council, a state agency funded by the State of Montana, and the National Endowment for the Arts. We are funded in part by coal severance taxes paid based upon coal mined in Montana and deposited in Montana's cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund. Additional funding is provided by museum members and the citizens of Cascade County, Davidson Family Foundation, D.A. Davidson, Horizon Credit Union, an anonymous donor, and Kelly’s Signs & Design.