This is a series of quilts I started generating after Election Day 2024. There were, and still are, so many changes to laws, funding, access – especially related to my profession as an educator, geologist, and oceanographer – that I used my sewing machine to ensure these actions and stories are not forgotten.

A photo gallery with each quilt is featured below. Click on the name of each quilt in the bulleted list for a full description and additional images.

• VOTE – encouraging my neighbors to exercise their right and get out to vote
• Processing – what was going through my head and heart the day after the election results were announced
• How Do I…? – figuring out how to convince students that civility matters, data-informed decision making is important, they are safe expressing their own identities, etc.
• If It Was Only This Easy – removing the impacts of climate change are not as easy as erasing the words
• Data Interrupted – broken links to web pages and data sets that are still online but no longer accessible
• HTTP 404 – erasing profiles of female scientists from federal websites
• Challenged Stitches – a quilt about the number of book titles proposed to be banned
• Unhappy Little Trees – calling attention to cuts to public media funding, with Bob Ross paintings helping fill this gap
• Her Name is Rachel – honoring of Dr. Rachel Levine
• Red Sky Morning, Ocean Exploration Warning – calling attention to federal budget cuts that have shut down oceanographic research vessels and the impact on ocean exploration
• Threatened and Endangered Species That Call the Gulf of Mexico Home – a collaboration from Penn State Brandywine students in a data visualization class, highlighting which species are impacted with the removal of federal protections
• Removed But Never Erased – calling attention to the removal of the signage and stories of slavery at the President’s House in Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia
• [next quilt in process…]

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