The Montana Trans Quilt Project is a living textile that preserves the history of a tumultuous time for transgender, nonbinary, and Two-Spirit Montanans.
About the Project
Sewn & Seen: The Montana Trans Quilt Project is a statewide community art and history project. This project was started to address the lack of preserved transgender, non-binary, and two-spirit history in Montana, and to build solidarity and community through joy, storytelling, and creation.
Participants this year are exclusively transgender, non-binary, Two-Spirit and queer Montanans. We welcome these folks to contribute to the project with an 8x8” piece of fabric, and these pieces will then be sewn together, with pieces from other communities, to create a living textile that will travel to as many Prides and events in the state of Montana as possible and will ultimately create a historical artifact that captures a particularly challenging time in our community.
Contribute to the quilt
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Contribute to the quilt ☆
Contribute to the 2026 Montana Trans Quilt Project
We are now accepting submissions for this year’s quilt.
This year, the Montana Trans Quilt Project is accepting submissions from transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit Montanans only.
Submission requirements:
Create an art piece with personal meaning on an 8×8” square of fabric.
Leave an inch margin around the edges to allow room for sewing.
Submissions are due no later than August 5th. Squares submitted after the deadline are not guaranteed to be sewn into the quilt.
Mail your submissions to:
BT Livermore
PO Box 10
Butte, MT 59703
Need support with postage? Please contact us!
Want to host an event in your community?
Catalyst Montana and BT want the quilt to include as many transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit voices as possible. We will do our best to host events in cities across Montana, and would love to know if you want an event hosted in your community. Please reach out if you’d like to collaborate.♡
I’m an ally and I want to participate!
That’s awesome! This year, we are exclusively accepting squares from transgender, non-binary or Two-Spirit Montanans.
Allies are welcome to attend quilt events to build community and show support, but impacted people will be centered in these spaces.
If you are wanting to make a material (fabric, art supplies, food for an event, etc) or monetary donation for the quilt project, please reach out to Han or our Executive Director, SJ Howell for further assistance.
Please email Han at han@catalystmt.org with questions.