Team effort
As I prepared to join JOIDES Resolution for two months, I was already thinking of how I would continue my presentations and conversations around our activities along the South Atlantic Transect post-expedition. One idea was to have an opportunity for those on board to help contribute to a quilt through their own drawings on squares. So I added to my packing list white fabric squares and fabric markers. Towards the end of our two-month expedition, the scientists and technicians on board JOIDES Resolution were invited to the ship’s conference room to draw something on a square. The topic was open, as long as the theme of their square related to the expedition. The squares surround the the winning design of our expedition logo competition.
Quilt measures 55 inches tall by 36 inches wide and was completed on June 29, 2023.
Quilt showing the contributions of the scientists and technicians on Expedition 390
Microbiologist Mako Takada placing her contest-winning logo for Expedition 390 in the stairwell with other winning logos from prior JR expeditions
Winning logo from EXP 390 design contest
Square capturing the science at sea
Square detailing work of the physical property specialists
Border fabric is from South Africa
Full quilt description (click to read)
As I prepared to join JOIDES Resolution for two months, I was already thinking of how I would continue my presentations and conversations around our activities along the South Atlantic Transect post-expedition. I was thinking of possible quilts I could create, as I had recently completed my Stitching Hope for the Louisiana Coast and Drawing Down Towards Climate Solutions quilt collections. One idea was to have an opportunity for those on board to help contribute to a quilt through their own drawings on squares.
Included in my packing list were white fabric squares and fabric markers. Towards the end of our two-month expedition, the scientists and technicians on board JOIDES Resolution were invited to the ship’s conference room to draw something on a square. The topic was open, as long as the theme of their square related to the expedition. It was exciting to see their thoughts and how they focused their drawings!
The logo in the middle was the winning design of our expedition’s contest. Each expedition hosts a contest for a logo design. Determined by popular vote, the design is placed in one of the stairwells of the JR and available to be screen printed on t-shirts. I brought along extra white fabric to have the logo printed so it could be included as the centerpiece of this quilt.
Squares were drawn by Masataka Aizawa, Jaume Dinarès-Turell, Justin Estep, William Gilhooly III, Lewis Grant, Laura Guertin, Sandra Herrmann, Michael Kaplan, Aidan Leetz, Andrew McIntyre, Beth Novak, Chieh Peng, Jessica Riekenberg, Claire Routledge, Angela Slagle, Mako Takada, Leonardo Tamborrino, Yi Wang, and Kiho Yang.
To supplement the white fabric squares, 3 Cats Shweshwe fabrics (Da Gama Textiles manufactured in South Africa) were used for the borders between the squares, keeping with my intention to include a 3 Cats Shweshwe fabric in each Expedition 390 quilt. The long-arm quilting was completed by Old Country Store Fabrics. Quilt measures 55 inches tall by 36 inches wide and was completed on June 29, 2023.