by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
Come to my Open Studio! I’ll be opening my “studio” (hint = garage!) for visitors to see completed work and work-in-progress, and check out the tools and sewing machines I use to create my work. Visitors will get a chance to “test-drive” a long arm quilting machine....
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
For years I’ve been drawn to artists who use text in their works. Favorites of mine include Ed Ruscha, Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer. I felt drawn to begin creating text for quilts in 2017 following the Women’s March. My daughter encouraged my husband...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
I’m excited to be teaching two different Saturday classes and continuing the Basic Improv Quilting Part 1 “Getting to the Top” 6-part series and Basic Improv Quilting “Finish Line” 5-part series at City College of San Francisco Extension...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
My July 2024 newsletter just dropped. Lots of good content! See it and subscribe here.
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
My June 2024 newsletter just dropped. Lots of good content! See it and subscribe here.
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
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...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
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...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
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...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2024
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...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 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...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2023
THE GOOD NEWS: My “San Francisco Air Quality: Fall 2020” quilt was selected to be included in the Fifth National Climate Assessment released by the US Government yesterday in the “Art x Climate” Gallery of the report. I wrote a blog post in 2020 about the making of...
by Lorraine Woodruff-Long | 2023
“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 September 30, 2023 – January 7, 2024...
