Be Smart Training Banner

Moms’s Demand Action, Middlesex CT Chapter has been involved with giving Be Smart training. I really felt that a banner was needed to make the training more professional. So, I found the exact green color needed in felt, bought an adhesive white color in rectangles and away I went, creating two banners!

After deciding what sizes I needed, I cut out the letters, pulled off the backing and placed them on the Green felt. Uh oh! The adhesive backing was more like a post-it note, and not at all permanent! Disaster! So I went to Jo-Ann Fabrics, where they tried to sell me new white felt that was iron-on! There was no way I re-cutting all of those letters again! But I did buy two bottles of Beacon Felt Glue, which worked just fine. Phew! Here is the final product in use:

Rachel is the trainer. 

Protest Art: JEDI Friday Protests

On every Friday at 5 pm on the corner of Main Street and Elm in Deep River, the JEDI Center sponsors a protest. I have made many signs for this event and tried to participate as well!

The Shame on Us sign was made using pentel markers and large Sharpie pens. The Trans rights sign was made with large Sharpie pens. KavaNo was made hurriedly with a paper cut out.

Here I am using a sign:

Protest Art: March for Science

The March for Science was held at Minuteman Park in Hartford on April 14, 2018. I made two signs for the event, put them back to back on a stick, so that I could carry them both! Here are the signs I made:g

I used large, chisel top Sharpies to do both the pointillism and the solid lettering. Here are the signs at the demonstration, where I had the honor of shaking hands with Senator Blumenthal. Photos by Brian Becker.

Protest Art: Gun Sense

As part of keeping busy during my retirement, I have been protesting.

I have been very moved by the loss of life from shootings across our nation, and so have joined the local chapter of Mom’s Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. My first protest was March for our Lives at the Capital in Hartford on March 24, 2018. Here I am at the heavily attended event with the sign “not one more”, which is the statement used at Sandy Hook.

The sign was made by selecting a font and printing it onto white paper. I then cut the letters out by hand and using rubber cement, glued them onto black foam core. 

This sign has also been used on Wear Orange Day in Niantic on June 3, 2018: