Soft Spaces For Hard Times

Soft Spaces For Hard Times brings together Bay Area fiber artists, SFArtsED teaching artists, and San Francisco youth to make a monumental textile collage quilt. This project is a symbolic and tangible act of connecting individuals and communities that are still healing from COVID pandemic isolation. Soft Spaces began almost two years ago in the SFArtsED Gallery and in public schools across San Francisco. Hundreds of hands have already contributed to the project, which culminates this fall (September 20, 2025) with an immersive and interactive textile installation in SFArtsED’s gallery at Minnesota Street Project.

This project has been made possible through funding from the SF Arts Commission, the Wattis Institute and a partnership with the San Francisco Arts Education Project.