Admission is free, and the public is invited to attend.
Each Quilt section is twelve feet square and contains eight individual memorial panels. The Quilt, initiated in San Francisco in 1987 as a way to remember the names of those who had died of AIDS, is now the world's largest on-going community art project. Each of the more than 42,000 colorful panels in the Quilt memorializes a victim's life and serves as a powerful and emotional documentary of the disease. As the epidemic continues, new panels continue to be added to the Quilt. Sections of it are sent all over the country for display in schools, churches, convention centers and other venues.