Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/09/2026 - 11/01/2026
All Day
Location
Fabric Workshop and Museum
Categories
The Fabric Workshop and Museum and Mural Arts Philadelphia are hosting Buck County’s award-winning multi-disciplinary artist Jesse Krimes’s exhibit series, Elegy Quilts. The works consist of personal effects from the U.S. penal system, presented through portraits of domestic spaces. It includes Riverside, a newly commissioned quilt inspired by Krimes’s work with Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Restorative Justice program, which supports those impacted by incarceration. Elegy Quilts aligns with a recently installed mural in Philadelphia’s Spring Arts District near the Chinatown area.
Digging into his experience as an inmate for 6 years, Krimes uses clothing and textile fragments from incarcerated individuals to make the quilts. The themes touch on loss, alienation, and comfort. Krimes invited incarcerated collaborators to describe a memory about home. The Riverside quilt is a compilation of curated collages by graduates from the Mural Arts Restorative Justice reentry program reflecting their “voices and visions.”
Free, but a $10 donation and pre-registration are encouraged. Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch St. 215-561-8888 or The Fabric Workshop and Museum (1st- floor gallery) or https://fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/pressreleases/fwm-mural-arts-announce-jesse-krimes-elegy-quilts/