The Loving Earth Project is a community textile project that aims to help people engage with the environmental crisis without being overwhelmed. Hundreds of people have made textile art panels illustrating things, places or people that they love and actions they are taking to help towards their future wellbeing. Most of these can be seen in the online gallery.
The Loving Earth Project website also offers resources to enable individuals or groups to make panels or set host events, and information about past exhibitions.
The project was started in 2019 for a Quaker Arts Network exhibition at Swarthmoor Hall. Several exhibitions have been held since; it was hailed as one of the best cultural events for COP 26 in 2021, and displays have been held in churches, Meeting Houses, museums, and Parliament in the UK and beyond. Some small books based on the project have also been published: contact the Quaker Bookshop for details.
Over 500 textile art panels have been created, and most can be seen online.
Some groups of textile panels are still available on loan from the following groups:
Cheltenham Quaker Meeting
Glasgow Quaker Meeting
The Museum of Animals
Quakers in Devon and Cornwall
Wandsworth Quaker Meeting (London)
The Westhill Endowment (Birmingham)
Please contact them directly , or via the Quaker Arts Network in case of difficulty, at quakerartsuk@gmail.com..