Join artist Sandra Sawatzky to embroider your own horse chestnut tree! This same type of tree is part of The Black Gold Tapestry on display at the Stanley Museum of Art and the same tree that Anne Frank looked at out of the annex window while in hiding. Create a beautiful embroidery and visit the Anne Frank Sapling, a descendant of the original tree, on the UI Pentacrest. All materials will be provided by the Anne Frank Initiative (AFI).

Sandra Sawatzky is a Canadian filmmaker and textile artist. She has made five short films and a feature film. Sawatzky's embroidered art includes The Black Gold Tapestry, which depicts the history of oil on 220 feet of linen, and the Age of Uncertainty, a series of twelve panels depicting modern anxieties. Using art, craft, and storytelling, Sawatzky’s witty embroideries place human lives within the context of inquiry and discovery, informed by science, technology, engineering, math, human beliefs and history. Her embroidered installations have traveled nationally and internationally. Sawatzky was awarded the Doug & Lois Mitchell Outstanding Calgary Artist Award in November 2022. The Black Gold Tapestry is currently on display at the Stanley Museum of Art.