WORLD AIDS DAY UNVEILING OF THE KEISKAMMA ART PROJECT TAPESTRY

EVENT DATE
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 10:00 AM

 LOCATION
Center on Halsted Lobby

DESCRIPTION

In 2008, Nozeti Makhubalo a designer from a community initiative titled The Keiskamma Art Project was in Chicago in 2008 for the presentation of the Keiskamma Altarpiece at Chicago’s St. James Cathedral. The altarpiece created by the art project is a response to the AIDS epidemic in their community which is located in the coastal town of Hamburg, in South Africa’s largely rural, poverty-stricken Eastern Cape Province. While in Chicago Nozeti visited Center on Halsted and was inspired to design a tapestry for the Center.

Commissioned by Michael Leppen for Center on Halsted, the tapestry was created over nine months in 2009 by women involved with the art project who were inspired by the theme “fraternity all over the world.” Nozeti Makhubalo; designer of the Center tapestry, created it with the important and relevant message “To help each other with one heart of love.”

A special ceremony unveiling the tapestry will be held at 10am sharp in the lobby of Center on Halsted on December 1, 2009, World AIDS Day.