Clara Wainwright is a quilt maker and public celebration artist whose work was presented in a thirty-year retrospective at the DeCordova Museum in 2002. She is presently the artistic director of the Faith Quilts Project, a four-year initiative that brings together quilt artists and faith groups to create collaborative quilts which explore their faiths and explain them to the wider world. More than fifty Faith Quilts will be exhibited at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts in April 2006.