Quilt Project Gold Coast (QPGC), makers of the AIDS Memorial Quilt of the Gold Coast covering Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, will display 12 panels of local quilts in the Channing Peake Gallery, 105 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara.

Working with the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture, QPGC quilts will be on display Aug. 20-Sept. 15 at the gallery in the Santa Barbara County Administration Building.

The quilt panels will commemorate Santa Barbara County and other area residents who died from AIDS. The display opens the week of Santa Barbara’s Pride Festival on Aug. 24.
 
“We are showing these quilts to remember our friends and family, who will not be able to attend this year’s festival,” said QPGC Board president Keith Coffman-Grey.

There is no admission fee to the Channing Peake Gallery, where the Quilts and a history of the local project will be on shown, Coffman-Grey said..
 
The 12 panels will include Mitch Kincannon, a Santa Barbara AIDS activist; UCSB professor David Broder; and area resident Ruben Varela.

This past spring the Kincannon Quilt was displayed at the district office of Rep. Salud Carbajal.

Quilt Project Gold Coast is a Santa Barbara-based nonprofit serving the communities of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Since its founding in 2018 QPGC has produced some three dozen panels for display in the Gold Coast.

In addition to Quilt displays, QPGC offers a speakers bureau on local AIDS history and living with the disease, as well as booths at local festivals and health fairs, and a quarterly newsletter called The Stitch’n Times.

QPGC’s Halloween Ghost Ship Dinner Cruise fundraiser, on Friday, Oct. 25, will fund most of the nonprofit’s yearly activities.

For tickets, newsletter sign-ups or more information, visit www.quiltprojectgoldcoast.org, or call 805-569-0561.