Anyone who happened by Baltimore's
Penn Station this past Sunday encountered a positive display of a criminal subject. The plaza in front of the building became a layout of handmade red quilts representing rape stories of rape and abuse. The quilts are the first 100 of a
Monumental Quilt project being created by an organization called
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture (
upsettingrapeculture.com) a creative activist collaboration to "upset the culture of rape and promote a culture of consent." Two Baltimore women, artists
Hannah Brancato and
Rebecca Nagle, are the organizers. The goal is to display the full quilt on the National Mall next summer, and a Kickstarter fundraising effort was successful in raising some of the money to help. The
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) was one of several organizations that supported the display at Penn Station.
