Arati Kushwaha has created The Quilt project is a socially engaged and ongoing project involving communities. The goal of the project is to collaboratively engage the community and the artist Arati Kushwaha. The Quilt Project will create a large- scale quilt with blocks featuring applique of math basic symbols such as not equal sign, inequality sign, greater than, less than, positive, negative, infinity, and power sign etc. The project is reference to the gender equality and the feminist movement as a form of resistance against gender discrimination in the society.

The Quilt Project is integration of math and art to create individual blocks to share participants views on gender inequality. The aim of the project is collecting as many blocks as possible that will represent the number of community views on inequality. The Quilt Project enable people to share their experiences, thoughts, feelings, and imaginations collaboratively. It sustains the engagement with textile processes that address the gender disparity issues women and gender diverse people around the world and gender diverse people around the world are facing.