Stitches and Stones: AIDS Memorials This section on AIDS Memorials--built and unbuilt, public and private--is intended to be only a beginning. We seek information about memorials throughout the world. Please send your text- and image materials to Artery to ensure their future inclusion within this ongoing, documentation project. The majority of the texts here have been provided by Jack Becker. (Other contributors' names appear alongside their texts.) Becker began to research AIDS memorials while putting together the spring, 1996 issue of FORECAST Public Artwork's journal "Public Art Review," which was devoted to "Rethinking Commemoration." Soon after, he became involved with two Minnesota organizations--Arts Over AIDS and the Mayfield Foundation--intent on creating a permanent AIDS memorial in Minneapolis' Loring Park. With support from the Jerome Foundation, a series of demonstration projects were funded, as was Becker's additional travel and research visiting other AIDS memorials. (The status of the Minneapolis project seems to be on hold.) The writing reproduced here comes from the report on his research project, which was completed in December 1998. Jack Becker is Artistic Director of FORECAST Public Artworks in St. Paul, Minnesota. UNITED STATES Key West AIDS Memorial Architect: Wheeler Group Date: 1997 Site: White Street Pier Minneapolis/Loring Park Temporary AIDS Memorials Various artists Date: 1998 Site: Loring Park, a prominently located park near downtown Minneapolis New Jersey Artist: Phyllis Castello Date: 1993 Site: Hillsborough, NJ New York - AIDS Monument 2000 Date of Inception: 1994/5 New York - National AIDS Memorial & The Keith Haring Altar Artist: Keith Haring Date: 1990 Site: Cathedral of St.John the Divine, Morningside Heights, Manhattan San Francisco - The National AIDS Memorial Grove Group Design Date: 1996 Site: A large secluded area in Golden Gate Park San Francisco - The Garden (Proposal) Artist: Rudy Lemcke Date: 1988 Site: San Francisco's Castro district CANADA Toronto AIDS Memorial Designer: Patrick Fahn Date: 1992 Site: Cawthra Square INTERNATIONAL The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Founder: Cleve Jones Date: 1987 Site: Internationally travelling project