We create for purpose, not perfection. Our message is in our making. Our quilts represent our personal and universal commitment to defending human rights everywhere.

"All thought should be respected as long as it respects others. That was the purpose of my embroidery. Every day, I try to live with this kindness. Opened to the world. Looking at this work, I hope that the viewer can feel this kindness."

— Marine Fisch, France, Article 18, the Green Quilt

UDHR Green quilt

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Article 20

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

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Ceyda Oskay works with a variety of media, from fabric, photography, print, to ceramics. She has exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom, Greece, Turkey, Iceland and Kuwait. She curated the Sadu Art and Design Initiative 2016 (SADI) with the Sadu House in Kuwait, a unique residency where eight artists inspired by craft met regularly for three months to learn about the traditional Sadu weaving. She has also taught workshops with the Print Room, Sadu House, and Nuqat in Kuwait, and designed costumes for Taqa Theatre productions.

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Article 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

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Maryanne Wollner is a curious, big-hearted, animal-loving Queer Person of Colour who has a huge love of fibre arts and textiles. She has never found a medium that has held her attention as much as embroidery. She graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2012, enjoying photography, printmaking, sculpture, book-making, and creative writing. During the last term of school she began to develop an interest in needle-felting and wet-felting, later moving on to sewing and embroidery. 

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Article 18

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

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Marine Fisch is a mixed-media artist born in 1987, living and working in Lyon, France.
She is a very happy mother of a little girl, finds happiness in books, walks, folk music and red-wine late hours. Marine is an artist, but she’s also a teacher. Or a self-proclaimed art therapist. She doesn’t really know how to name it. But she tries to help young and old people by art. In schools, museums, retirement homes or in her own studio, she encourages her students to express themselves and experiment with all kinds of visual art.

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Article 17

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

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Jo Beazley was asked to participate in this project by a crafty friend—who subsequently pulled out—and still feels slightly ill at the thought of her work being shown alongside professional textile artists from around the world. Jo is a mum, wife, librarian, coffee addict, lover of all things shiny and tactile including technology, fabric, lipstick and flowers. And books! Don't forget books! She is a proud wearer of a pussy hat her friend knitted for her. Her grandmother went to her grave bemoaning the fact Jo could not knit, even though she can stitch and quilt.

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Article 16

Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

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I am a Taiwanese and Cuban researcher, crafter, soccer player, traveller, foodie, daughter, friend and fiancé. While this is my first craftivism project, I am very excited to participate and seek out more ways to make a difference through art. 

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Article 15

Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

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Eva Abbinga is a cross-disciplinary visual artist motivated by an interest in the complexities of place, identity and sustainability. Through large-scale soft sculpture, textiles and photography, Eva explores issues of social, environmental and economic concern and aims to create a dialogue with the viewer that questions existing notions of the urban ideal. Her practice is informed by her Dutch and Ukrainian heritage as well as her experience in urban planning. Eva works collaboratively with other artists, community groups and craftspeople. 

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Article 14

Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

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Kristy Thorburn is a registered art therapist and accredited mental health social worker practicing in south-east Queensland, Australia. Kristy’s work includes working with children and families in creative ways to address trauma, anxiety and to help families alleviate life stressors. Kristy has worked with asylum seekers and refugees within the public school system and within several community organisations. Kristy is passionate about improving Australia’s response to people seeking asylum both on a human-to-human basis and within our federal government policies.

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Article 13

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

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Sarah Pedlow, artist and founder of ThreadWritten Textiles, is interested in traditional textiles, cultural preservation, and creating a global community of makers connected via cultural heritage skills. Her fine art work ranges from photography and mixed media to textiles-based sculpture. From 2012–15 she researched Kalotaszeg written embroidery in Transylvania, Romania, and made products with women artisans. She has attended artist’s residencies in Budapest, Hungary; Iceland; Oaxaca, Mexico; and the Netherlands. Sarah has also spent time studying embroidery in Ukraine.

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Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

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Dr Alyce McGovern is an Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and keen crafter. Born and raised in south-west Sydney, Alyce was inspired to cross-stitch, embroider, and sew by her mother, who is an experienced and talented crafter in a range of different media. In recent years, Alyce has married this interest in craft with her scholarly interest in matters of criminal justice. She has researched widely in the area of crime and media, and is currently researching yarn-bombing and craftivism from a criminological perspective.

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Article 11

Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

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Norma (Hilo Magico) is a former communications executive from Mexico City. She is the mother of a girl and, after maternity, she started a project that fuses two of her passions: meditating and embroidery. For her, the repetition and the rhythm of embroidering is a meditation itself. She learnt to embroider from her mother, and her mother from her mother. She also identifies with the thousands of indigenous women in Mexico who have been knitting and embroidering for hundreds of years using weaving tied to a tree.

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