The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI)
Raising Awareness & Funding Research Through Art
Questions? Email us or call: (810) 637-5586
About Us
The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (www.AlzQuilts.org) is a national, grassroots charity whose mission is to raise awareness and fund research. The AAQI auctions and sells donated quilts, and sponsors a nationally touring exhibit of quilts about Alzheimer's. The AAQI has raised more than $411,000 since January 2006.
Ami Simms of Flint, Michigan is the founder and executive director of the AAQI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operated entirely by volunteers. She is a quilter. Her mother had Alzheimer's.
The AAQI currently sponsors two major programs:.
Alzheimer's Forgetting Piece by Piece
The first is a nationwide traveling quilt exhibit called "Alzheimer's: Forgetting Piece By Piece." It contains 52 quilts each interpreting Alzheimer's in some way. More than 220,000 people have had the opportunity to see this exhibit since August 2006. A book and a CD of the exhibit are available for purchase. A new exhibit called Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak To Hope will replace the current exhibit in 2011.
Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts
The second is the "Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts" project, so named for the urgent need for research dollars and the hope that quilters across the country would make participation in this project a priority. These small quilts are a perfect fit for the flat rate cardboard priority mailers from the USPS, which the group uses to ship quilts to winning bidders after monthly online auctions.
There are an estimated 5.3 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease. We believe we can make a difference, one quilt at a time.
Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative
1200 Creekwood Trail
Burton, MI 48509
810 637-5586
info@alzquilts.org
Ami Simms of Flint, Michigan is the founder and executive director of the AAQI, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operated entirely by volunteers. She is a quilter. Her mother had Alzheimer's.
The AAQI currently sponsors two major programs:.
Alzheimer's Forgetting Piece by Piece
The first is a nationwide traveling quilt exhibit called "Alzheimer's: Forgetting Piece By Piece." It contains 52 quilts each interpreting Alzheimer's in some way. More than 220,000 people have had the opportunity to see this exhibit since August 2006. A book and a CD of the exhibit are available for purchase. A new exhibit called Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak To Hope will replace the current exhibit in 2011.
Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts
The second is the "Priority: Alzheimer's Quilts" project, so named for the urgent need for research dollars and the hope that quilters across the country would make participation in this project a priority. These small quilts are a perfect fit for the flat rate cardboard priority mailers from the USPS, which the group uses to ship quilts to winning bidders after monthly online auctions.
There are an estimated 5.3 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease. We believe we can make a difference, one quilt at a time.
Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative
1200 Creekwood Trail
Burton, MI 48509
810 637-5586
info@alzquilts.org