A Quilt to Remember: Tufankjian’s Work to Be Displayed at Quilt Show

HARTFORD, Conn. — Anna Tufankjian’s 2015 quilt, “Never Forgotten,” was created with respectful memory of the 1.5 Armenians who perished during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and the diaspora that followed.

The images on the quilt include Mount Ararat; the Armenian flag; a drawing of Kecharis Monastery, representing Armenia as the first Christian nation; and a map of the early Armenian Empire, which once reached from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. The grapevines represent just one of the bountiful harvests grown in the shadow of Mt. Ararat and one of the traditional foods replanted worldwide through the diaspora.