Death from A to Z by Adam Lanza

On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot 20 young students and six teachers, in an estimated five minutes, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and then took his own life with a pistol.
Determining to create a piece to explore this event, I discovered the Kid’s Stuff section of the National Rifle Association website and was surprised to see it sold baby bibs with NRA in block letters on them. Here’s how the NRA sees it: “This terry cloth baby bib proudly displays the building blocks of Second Amendment protection, ‘NRA’.”
I decided to make a quilt (a symbol of family warmth and protection) with 26 bibs. Each bib was embroidered with a letter of the alphabet and the name of a person killed, with the letter “A” assigned to the youngest person, "B" to the next oldest, and so on.
“Death from A to Z by Adam Lanza, Dec. 14, 2012” dramatizes the need for debate about gun access in the United States and around the world.