November 2024 BRANCH MEETING
When: Sat., November 23, 2024
Time: 10 am: Social Time
Please bring a mug for coffee or tea
10:30 am-noon: Program
Where: First Presbyterian Church, Calvin Hall,
1615 Clark Avenue at Walker St., Ashland
Non-members are always welcome to attend our monthly branch meetings, and there is no charge to do so.
“Do Something Challenging: Artist Betty LaDuke”
For more than 60 years, Betty LaDuke has traversed the globe as an artist and activist, bringing her sketches back to her Ashland studio and transforming them into larger-than-life paintings and wood panels — and most recently, a collection of turtles bearing wisdom on their backs. Decades ago, heading into a sabbatical from SOU where she was the first woman on the arts faculty, her husband encouraged her to “do something challenging.” She did!
At the November 23, 2024 Branch meeting, LaDuke will present and talk about her life’s work, the values that drive her art, her recent passion for Turtle Wisdom, and how, at age 91, curiosity and making a difference still animate her days.
Barbara Cervone, Program Chair
“Big Ideas” Talks To Generate Conversations
2024-2025 Calendar
AAUW/Ashland & Jackson County Library Services, present
monthly discussions, 4:00-5:30 pm at the Ashland Library
—November 12, 2024—
“One Brick at a Time: Rebuilding the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.”
Tim Bond (left), OSF Artistic Director;
and Amy Cuddy (right), OSF Board Member
Rebuilding OSF Story, 11-12-24
—January 7, 2025—
“The Current State of Local/Regional Journalism”
Bert Etling (left), Executive Editor, Ashland.news;
Bob Wise (right), VP & General Manager, KOBI-TV NBC5.
—February 4, 2025—
“The Teenage Brain: Impacts on Despair, Homelessness
& Substance Abuse.”
Mary Ferrell (left), Executive Director, Maslow Project;
Lacey Corbett (right), MA, Clinical Supervisor, Maslow Project
—March 4, 2025—
“Oregon Gun Laws Still Under Fire? An Update on Measure 114.”
Nathan Sickler (left), Jackson County Sheriff;
Tighe O’Meara (right), Ashland Police Chief
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