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Workshop: Community Quilting Project

Artist Lizzy Rockwell leads a drop-in workshop in which participants will design and create a quilt square on the theme of “Justice” for a community quilt, created in conjunction with the Fairfield University Art Museum exhibition Stitching Time: The Social Justice Quilts Collaboration Project (on view in the Walsh Gallery in the Quick Center September 12-December 13, 2026). All supplies will be provided! Image: A Peace By Piece quilting event at Norwalk Library.

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October 16, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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1073 North Benson Road
Fairfield, CT 06824 United States

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Free

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Fairfield University Art Museum

203.254.4000 ext. 2726

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Artist Lizzy Rockwell leads a drop-in workshop in which participants will design and create a quilt square on the theme of “Justice” for a community quilt, created in conjunction with the Fairfield University Art Museum exhibition Stitching Time: The Social Justice Quilts Collaboration Project (on view in the Walsh Gallery in the Quick Center September 12-December 13, 2026). All supplies will be provided!

Image: A Peace By Piece quilting event at Norwalk Library.

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