The Portsmouth Public Art Review Committee
& Portsmouth Recreation Department
cordially invite you to join us to
Re-dedicate the fibre-artwork
"Each One: The Button Project 9/11 Memorial"
with artist Sarah Haskell
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 10 am
Community Campus (100 Campus Drive)
“Each One: The Button Project, a 9/11 Memorial”
After 9/11, the textile artist Sarah Haskell of York ME wanted to create “something that lasts, while the memories fade.” The result was “Each One: The Button Project."
Sarah Haskell’s artwork incorporates regimented rows of 3,116 – one for each life lost -- bone-colored buttons lined up across the dark linen handwoven backdrop as an abstract representation of the Twin Towers.
The piece was displayed at the Currier Museum in 2002; then in 2011, the Portsmouth City Council voted to use gifted funds to purchase the artwork in honor and recognition of Evelyn Sirrell, who was Mayor from 1997-2005, including on September 11, 2001.
In 2017, the September 11th Memorial and Museum in New York City asked to borrow the piece, where it was displayed until September 2019 when it returned to City Hall.
The piece has just been installed in the atrium of the Portsmouth Community Campus main building, where the re-dedication will take place.
Each One: The Button Project when it was first installed in Council Chambers at City Hall. Then-Councilor Chris Dwyer, left and artist Sarah Haskell, right.
For more information, please visit Each One: The Button Project