Quilter’s Work Together to Provide Funds to Help Researchers Beat Alzheimer’s Disease

| June 10, 2011

  Here is a message from AMI SIMMS that quilters will be interested in! AAQI Awards $60,000 Research Grant! Dr. Alan Saltiel (Director of the Life Sciences Institute at University of Michigan), Dr. Mi Hee Lim (Principal Investigator), Ami Simms (Founder & Director, AAQI), and Dr. Jung-Suk Choi (Postdoctoral Fellow)   It was quite a […]

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TRAVELING EXHIBIT ABOUT ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

| April 21, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGzAOBwZ7MM&NR=1 “Alzheimer’s Illustrated: From Heartbreak To Hope” is a 236-quilt traveling exhibit about Alzheimer’s disease. It is sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative, a nonprofit national charity run by volunteers whose mission is to raise awareness and fund research through art. Images in this video were taken at the Hands Across The Valley quilt […]

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Alzheimer’s Quilts

| April 17, 2011

If you have ever had a family member or friend with Alzheimer’s Disease, you know how difficult this journey can be.  Here is a way that quilters are helping contribute monies for research to find a treatment and ultimately a cure. Many of you know Sherry Whitford (one of the founders of the Colonial Piecemaker’s […]

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