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Jesse Krimes’ “Elegy Quilts” Opens at Philadelphia Museum

8/19/2026

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Artist Jesse Krimes’s exhibition Elegy Quilts is on view at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum, featuring quilts made from incarcerated individuals’ clothing fragments.
He taught himself to sew and quilt to produce the Elegy Quilts project.
He founded the Center for Art and Advocacy in Brooklyn in 2014 to support formerly incarcerated artists and critique mass incarceration.

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Artist Jesse Krimes’s exhibition Elegy Quilts is on view at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum, featuring quilts made from incarcerated individuals’ clothing fragments.
He taught himself to sew and quilt to produce the Elegy Quilts project.
He founded the Center for Art and Advocacy in Brooklyn in 2014 to support formerly incarcerated artists and critique mass incarceration.