June 2024 Newsletter
My June 2024 newsletter just dropped. Lots of good content! See it and subscribe here.
Get Informed – Fight Back with Facts…and VOTE
The 2022 Dobbs marked a monumental setback for women’s rights, effectively shifting the decision to permit or restrict abortions to individual states and igniting the rollback and impinging of additional rights and reproductive freedoms, including contraception, IVF...
Women’s Work: Abortion Rights Commentary Quilts
In 2022, in anticipation of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade (and following the Texas Heartbeat Law, September 2021), I began a quilt series, “Women’s Work.” This series of “commentary quilts” seeks to make a subversive statement about the status...
Tips for shipping – and TRACKING – your “precious”
With regularity, I see an emotional, helpless post from a fellow artist or quilter sharing that their artwork has gone missing in shipping. It’s a horrible feeling – something you’ve poured your heart and soul into vanishes and the shipping companies...
May 2024 Newsletter
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Guest of Honour
It was my pleasure to be the “Guest of Honour” at HM British Consul General’s Residence in celebration of San Francisco Climate Week and Earth Day. My piece, “You’re Getting Warmer: Rising Global Temperatures 1850-2022” was there for guests to see and learn from (it...
Art Quilting Studio Magazine Spring 2024
I’ve been published! My article “Clothing Reimagined: Creating Quilt Memories” is in the Spring 2024 edition of Art Quilting Studio Magazine. I feature four quilts that I’ve made from clothing from my family: Two features shirts from my...
Good News – Bad News
The assault on climate science by President Donald Trump’s administration has been taken to a new level, as NASA has terminated the contract that supports two dozen technical staff at the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), the White House office that coordinates research among the federal agencies. The move will hollow out the staff relied on to assist volunteer scientists in the production of the quadrennial U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA), potentially leaving that report delayed, diminished, or as a venue for climate misinformation.
The Making of “You’re Getting Warmer: Rising Global Temperatures 1850-2022”
“You’re Getting Warmer: Rising Global Temperatures 1850-2022” By Lorraine Woodruff-Long 2023 32”x92” Cotton top, batting, back. Machine pieced, machine & hand quilted. The de Young Open 2023/San Francisco, CA September 30, 2023 –...
Learn to quilt through City College of SF Extension!
I will be teaching a two-part Improv Quilting for Beginner series at City College of San Francisco Extension this Fall 2023 on Thursdays. The series will be held at the John Adams CCSF Campus 1860 Hayes at Masonic Ave. The series is designed for newbies – even...