10/06/2012 - 09/01/2013
American Visionary Art Museum
800 Key Highway
Baltimore, MD
current exhibit

Art and Remembrance is a non-profit, arts and educational organization that seeks to change people's hearts and minds by illuminating the experience of war, oppression, and injustice through the power and passion of personal narrative in art.

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Los Hilos de la Vida
Threads of Life

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Mi esperanza para Esperanza ~ My hope for Esperanza
by Yesenia Peña

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This is my first quilt. I made it for my first baby, Esperanza, (Esperanza means hope in Spanish). I started making it because I needed 26 more credits to graduate from high school. I had Esperanza at 11:23 a.m. on June 13th and walked the stage for my high school graduation the next day at 7:00 p.m. I hope she’ll use this blanket for her first baby. I hope that she will have the best that the world can offer.
Esta es mi primera colcha. La hice para mi primera hija, Esperanza. Empecé a hacer esta colcha para ganar algunos de mis 26 créditos que me faltaban para graduarme en la high school. Di a luz a Esperanza a las 11:23 am el 13 de junio, 2007 y caminé el escenario para cumplir mi graduación de high school al siguiente día a las 7:00pm. Espero que ella use esta cobija para su primer nene. Ojalá que ella tenga lo mejor que ofrece el mundo.


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