Blanket Stories: Talking Stick, Works Progress, Steward

A site-specific installation commissioned by Curator Faith Brower and the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon

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Daniel Sathre
Jacksonville, OR
Tags
Generations, Handmade

My mother, Alice, tied blankets for every member of her family. Even late in life and affected by dementia she continued to tie blankets. In her memory, every year her children and grandchildren gather across 5 states as “Alice’s Angels” to tie blankets, which are then donated to charities.