Bizarre discovery! 3 quilts covering an abandoned school in Flint, Michigan. Another update with new information!

A strange yet bizarre discovery has been found at the location of 500 Welch Blvd in Flint, Michigan! Three 30 foot long quilts have been found covering the front of the former Cook Elementary School. These quilts date back to 2015 according to Google Maps street view imagery. The quilts were placed on the rooftop, extending all the way to ground level. A portion of these quilts cover some basement windows. Is that not the weirdest thing you seen in Flint?

Flint is the only city I have seen that would cover an entire school building with a quilt. So whoever it was wasted perfectly good clothing material by covering an entire school. That’s illogical. That would never fly down here in Texas, Canada, or anywhere else. Someone must be into knitting.

This is one of the many bizarre things you would never expect to see when browsing on street view using Google Maps. This is absolutely hilarious, wasteful, and staggering. Seems the quilts have been put back up. How is it that Flint is able to cover an entire school building with 3 quilts but cannot provide clean water for their citizens?

There are many questions people will ask. Why would something like this happen? Why would someone cover a school with a quilt? Why cover the school with it? Who would cover almost an entire school with quilts that big? Who would come with this idea or concept? What does this all mean? How is this even possible? So many questions that have yet to be answered.

Some say the heating at Cook School hasn’t worked in decades back when it was a functioning school. Others say people who are bored out of their minds do something strange like this. Some residents say it’s the lead in the water supply that makes people do questionable things such as this.


However there has been more information discovered after digging through extensive research on the internet. Some facts were found.

So what was hanging from the rooftop of Cook School were not actually quilts but was actually believed to be a Kinte cloth. Hanging a Kinte cloth over an abandoned school was an attempt of community unity. Cook School is located in the King neighborhood (King Hood) of Flint, Michigan on the North Side. King Hood is plagued with crime, violence, and drugs.

2 quilts covering the top of Cook Elementary School.

Now the person behind this bizarre discovery was none other than Amanda Browder. Amanda Browder is the person responsible for sewing all three 30 foot quilts together. Sewing all 3 quilts together took Amanda Browder 3 weeks. She came up with the idea to hang quilts over an abandoned school building from the rooftop. She brought her idea to Flint Public Arts around July 2015.

Apparently Flint Public Arts is responsible for hanging those 3 quilts from. A hydraulic crane was used to hang all three quilts which was hung at the rooftop near a front entrance of Cook School. Flint Public Arts was responsible for the woven installation at Cook School.

A hydraulic crane was used to hang all three quilts which was hung at the rooftop near a front entrance of Cook School. Flint Public Arts was responsible for the woven installation at Cook School.

Those 3 quilts hanging from the rooftop of Cook School were part of the Flint Public Arts Parade of 2015. The 3 quilts were hung on the rooftop of Cook School on August 27, 2015. Flint Public Arts even held a parade for the event on August 31, 2015.

By somewhere around January or April 2019 is when the quilts were taken down. There has been no sign of these quilts being hung back up as of 2020.