A Guarantee of Sanity

admin2026-06-01T22:51:53+00:00 “It’s been fascinating paying close attention to the way the numbers are reported, whose numbers are reported, when they’re reported, how they’re reported,” she says. “There is political shaping to that: who has access, who doesn’t. Who has testing, who doesn’t… I mean, the numbers...

The Denver Channel

admin2026-06-01T22:50:56+00:00 “The project began as a way to give a visual representation of the global pandemic; something more tangible than numbers on paper, according to Schulte. But it quickly evolved into a catharsis, a release from the stress of being isolated from her normal life.” —

Boulder County Community Foundation Trends Diary

admin2026-06-01T22:50:21+00:00 “Cross stitching helps Boulder artist process gravity and grief” (also aired on KGNU) -Boulder County Community Foundation Trends Diary

BMoCA Virtual Studio Tours (via Instagram)

admin2026-06-01T22:49:48+00:00 “A community-based project bringing people together in a place and a time when we are so distant, and so forced to be separated.” -BMoCA Virtual Studio Tours (via Instagram)

Embroidered COVID-19 Data community project

admin2026-06-01T22:49:08+00:00 “Heather - 57:30​ - Embroidered COVID-19 Data community project” -BLDG61 Maker Space Virtual Show & Tell

COVID Calls with Scott Gabriel Knowles podcast

admin2026-06-01T22:48:30+00:00 “Artist Heather Schulte talks about her "Stitching the Situation" participatory memorial project. We discuss her Uncle Joe--he died of COVID-19 in April--and the cross-stitch panel she made in memorial of him.” -COVID Calls with Scott Gabriel Knowles podcast , YouTube video, or on

Stitching Together Research Network

admin2026-06-01T22:47:40+00:00 “This case study, which explores a participatory textile making research project, is written by Heather Schulte.” -Stitching Together research network

Situation Report

admin2026-06-01T22:46:51+00:00 “Heather Schulte’s work “Situation Report,” for which the exhibit is named, will be the centerpiece of the show and hang throughout the gallery. It’s a 39-foot ribbon of fabric with stitches of blue and red thread representing COVID-19 daily cases and deaths in the U.S.” -

KGNU “Connections’ show, Dec 17, 2021

admin2026-06-01T21:47:22+00:00 KGNU “Connections’ show, Dec 17, 2021 Host: Fiona Foster Art during the pandemic Heather Schulte is an artist in Boulder, CO. In March 2020, she founded Stitching the Situation, a collaborative project which physically manifests the US COVID-19 data in the form of cross...

Wired Magazine

admin2026-06-01T21:40:42+00:00 Jacqueline Wernimont, the Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College, wrote a beautiful article about the importance of data visceralization for WIRED magazine. ”An important part of what data visceralization does—whether by walking an exhibition, riding a train while listening to...