Write a Welcome Note
With your Welcome Blanket, please include a story important to your family about immigration, migration, or relocation along with some words of welcome for the recipient of your Welcome Blanket gift
Please also include your name (anonymous is ok!), city/state, and care instructions.
Send your Welcome Blanket gift to our rotating host
Welcome Blanket has operated continuously since 2017. We are grateful to our hosts who act as collection points.
Please log your Welcome Blanket online prior to sending to help us with our archive and so we can share your gorgeous contribution to this national project!
The Museum of Work and Culture is our current host! From now to May 15, 2024, please send your work here:
Welcome Blanket
℅ Museum of Work and Culture
42 South Main Street
Woonsocket, RI, 02895
Please share your experience in person and online using @welcomeblanket and #welcomeblanket
Please note: By sending or giving your piece to Welcome Blanket Project, you are permanently gifting and granting all rights with regard to the piece to the project. In particular, you are acknowledging that it may be posted on social media, licensed for materials (for example: books, t-shirts, catalogs) associated with the project and possibly exhibited at multiple locations prior to being gifted to a new American neighbor. The goals of Welcome Blanket Project include exhibition and publication. Many other options are being explored. The Museum would also love for you to fill out this release to make sure all “i”s and “t”s are crossed.
Yes, Welcome Blanket is a 501c3 with Tax I.D. #82-3710239.
After the show…
Post-exhibition, Welcome Blankets are gifted thoughtfully to a refugee settling in the United States through one of our many refugee resettlement partners. Over 6500 Welcome Blankets have been made and gifted. Be part of the movement to welcome!
GROUPS!
Welcome Blanket Chapters have been forming across the country: at schools, service groups, crafting guilds, and libraries. If you and your group are interested in getting started, please get in touch.
Volunteer Opportunities
If you are in LA, or would like to help out from afar, please fill out this form.