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Los Angeles Women: A Record of Experience Community Quilt Blocks
		This quilt block is the title quilt block from the original installation in 2007 and lists the different contributers. The diver is Olympic Gold medal winner Dorothy Poynton, a local diver whose record inspires us all to greater achievement. Considered "over the hill" at 22 years of age and too old for the 1936 Olympics, Poynton came back to win Olympic Gold and discredit her critics.
Title Quilt Block return to quilt
		Women Rising Collective was a group of veteran women's liberation movement activists that formed following a reunion in the early 1980s. This photograph shows a reading by members of the group at a conference they organized against the Family Protection Act of 1982. Members featured in the photo: Front row left to right: Donna Cassyd, Joan Robins, Sherna Gluck; Back row left to right, Cheryl Diehm, Bea Free.
Woman Rising Collective by Sherna Berger Gluck return to quilt
		A Kiss for Every Woman.
A Kiss for Every Woman by Christine Hanson return to quilt
		The Skater is Becky Sanabria's Aunt Pat Lupo.
The Skater by Becky Sanabria return to quilt
		These quilt blocks were done at the Studio for Southern California History by visitors. One block is for the Corn Mother, one is for a 3rd grade teacher named Mrs. Burton and the third depicts the yin/yang symbol.
On the Fly Quilts return to quilt
		These quilt blocks were done at the Studio for Southern California History by visitors. The first one shows a girl and the Studio logo "because my history matters." Another states "I love my mom." Another shows a young adult with the words--future president of the United States.
On the Fly Quilts return to quilt
		Leoda Preston made this block for Frances Preston.
Moon over the Mountain by Leoda Preston return to quilt
		The image of Healey used in the block is from a painting by Arnold Mesches. Dorothy Ray Healey was a longtime leader of the Communist Party in Southern California. She organized farm workers in the Imperial Valley in the 1930s. Dubbed the "Red Queen of Los Angeles" by the LA Times in the 1950s, when she was indicted under the Smith Act., which was later overturned as unconstitutional.
Dorothy Healey by Sherna Berger Gluck return to quilt
		This block depicts the Virgen of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles by Victoria Delgadillo return to quilt
		This block shows my mother, aunt & grandmother and reminds me of their strength, style, and beauty.
Liebe Libre by Sharon Sekhon return to quilt
		Anita Muretta Andrade Castro became the first Spanish speaking woman organizer in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in Los Angeles in the mid 1930s. She became active during the drive leading up to the industry wide strike of 1934 and was named to the Executive Board under the name Anita Andrade. She was an active organizer until her retirement in 1972.
Anita Andrade Castro by Sherna Berger Gluck return to quilt
		This block depicts Florence Lowe Barnes, also known as "Pancho." Barnes is a famed local pilot, adventurer & stunt woman. She established a dude ranch known as the Happy Bottom Riding Club that catered to airmen. She is known as the "Mother of Edwards Air Force Base".
Pancho by Pamela Kelly return to quilt
		This block depict Mary Distaso, sister to Concetta Capacchione
Olive Garden by Sharon Sekhon return to quilt
		This block honors Clare Marter Kenyon, an environmental activist. "In the spring of this year, the two California Black Walnut and two other trees were added to the list of Southern California protected trees along with the Coast Live Oak as part of the Oak Tree Ordinance. This was due in a large part to Clare's efforts."
Tree (Variation) Oak Tree by Daniel Marlos return to quilt
		This block depicts Leoda Preston. "I created this butterfly pattern for my grandma who always liked butterflies, lavender colored irises and hummingbirds. The photograph of her was taken when she was eighteen, not long after she was married, and is a copy of the same one that she sent to my grandpa while he was stationed in Germany during World War II. The pink ribbon represents her ongoing struggle against breast cancer from which she has survived 13 years and counting."
Untitled by Aimee Dozois return to quilt
		Joan Robins, among other things, was the co-founder (with Dorothy Bricker) of Women's Liberation One in the late 1960s, founding member of the Crenshaw Women's Center in 1970, and worked to create the Anti-Rape Squad and the LA Commission on Assaults Against Women.
Joan Robins: Women's Liberation Movement Activist by Sherna Berger Gluck return to quilt
		Block dreated for her daughter Aimee.
Untitled by Pamela Kelly return to quilt
		These quilt blocks were done at the Studio for Southern California History by visitors. One reads "I love my mom." Another reads "Michel Martinez an amazing woman." Another reads "The Parnell Women" and the last reads "Love your history!"
On the Fly Quilts return to quilt
		Sarah Rozner, a leading union activist on behalf of women, founded a Women's Local of Amalgamated Workers (ACWA) in Chicago where she first began working. She became one of the first women business agents in tailoring in that city. After she moved to Los Angeles in 1938 (she was born in 1892) she continued to organize at the shop level and remained a staunch advocate and fighter of the rights of women workers.
Sarah Rozner by Sherna Berger Gluck return to quilt
		These quilt blocks were done at the Studio for Southern California History by visitors. One reads "The reason for any of my success Linda Kusse Wolve en route to Iran." Another reads "My mom Denise by Shannon." A third one reads "My mom is MERK you learn by example."
On the Fly Quilts return to quilt
		This block depicts Chisako Yokoyama, Editor. She has worked on many mahor films and many independent ones too. Though busy with two kids and a career, she has started the International School of Motion Pictures in Torrance, California. The school caters to Japanese students and is a really vibrant place!
Chisako! by Bob Drwila return to quilt
		This quilt block represents my mother. The photograph was her Senior Class picture. As a child I was always fascinated with this picture of my mother, looking so elegant in a white fur and blue jeans (that's what she told me she was wearing beneath the fur). According to family legend, Uncle Jack (a range master) had a copy of this picture in his office at the rifle range where he worked. My father was a sharp shooter, one day after practice he noticed the picture and asked who the pretty girl was. My Uncle Jack introduced them. That how my parents met and here I am.
Mom by Aimee Dozois return to quilt
		In memory of my friend Joan Gilmour. She was a dedicated volunteedr for the active blind in Los Angeles. She lost her long battle with cancer in August. Joan touched many hearts and she will always be remembered as a loving wife, mother, friend."
Country Angel by Joan Bender return to quilt
		Super mom--mother to us all. A lady with a mysterious past who makes the future brighter. Special thanks Maria for your help in preparing this community quilt and being a great friend to the Studio for Southern California History.
Maria Elisa Gutierrez Aguilar Bautista--Super Mom return to quilt
		A humble guardian of women's Angeleno histories, beginning with her own mother's Los Angeles tales. Regal, Redhead, Rare Bibliophile, Green Thumb Dear Friend. Mother of an Angel. Do Angeles have Angels? The Studio for Southern California History is grateful for her assistance in completing this Community Quilt and for periodically breathing much needed vitality & enthusiasm into the Studio.
Peggy Bernal--Angel in the City of Angels return to quilt
		This is my paternal grandmother Nand Kaur Sekhon. I miss her alot since she passed in 1982. She loved to laugh and knew how to keep us in order. She was one of my best friends.
Mataji by Sharon Sekhon return to quilt
		This is my grandmother who taught me how to make quilts. The pattern is based in the Irish Chain, a classic pattern that was also one of her favorites. I making this block I used some of the hand sewing techniques that she taught me. The roses in the fabric represent her much cherished rose garden. The photograph is dated 1929 and marked "from a school play." After she passed away, I found the photograph hiddenin one of her drawers. The story behind it remains a mystery.
Untitled by Aimee Dozois return to quilt
		When I am strong, I am not only strong for myself, I am strong for everyone. Victoria was a 23 year old woman who died while in shackles at the San Pedro Immigration Detention Center in 2007. A transgender undocumented person, Arellano was also HIV positive and denied medical care to the point that fellow male inmates chanted in unison "hospital" until Victoria was transferred. Inmates raised $250 after her death to send to Arellano's family.
Victoria Arellano by Tyler Daly return to quilt
		Johnnie Tillmon was the founder of the first welfare mothers organization in the US called Mothers of Watts Anonymous. Elected to leadership in the Los Angeles County Welfare Organization, she eventually became the Director of the National Welfare Rights Organization. Even after the demise of the welfare rights movements, Tillmon remained active in the Watts community.
Johnnie Tillmon by Sherna Berger Gluck return to quilt
		Modesta Avila challenged the railroad that disrupted her San Juan Capistrano chicken farm in 1889. She tied a clothes line across the lines with a note protesting its incursion and was ultimately convicted of "obstruction of a train" after the prosecution implied the unmarried Avila was pregnant. Avila died two years into her three year sentence while in jail.
Modesta Avila return to quilt
		This quilt block is the title quilt block from the original installation in 2007 and lists the different contributers. The diver is Olympic Gold medal winner Dorothy Poynton, a local diver whose record inspires us all to greater achievement. Considered "over the hill" at 22 years of age and too old for the 1936 Olympics, Poynton came back to win Olympic Gold and discredit her critics.
Title Quilt return to quilt

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