Joanne Lightfoot

Joanne works across multiple fiber arts, with crochet serving as both personal practice and tool for community activism. In response to the current political climate, she has merged craft with advocacy, creating work that functions simultaneously as decorative object and political statement.

Through local organizing efforts, she has produced crocheted protest banners, frog hats, and seasonal ornaments to raise funds for immigrant legal defense initiatives. Her work reflects a long tradition of fiber arts as resistance—using accessible, domestic techniques to broadcast collective values and mobilize resources.

The dowels used to display her pieces were prepared by her husband Joe, a collaboration that extends her making process beyond the individual.