Our beloved artist and partner Rachel Binah is moving to Boundless Farmstead in Bend Oregon to be near family. Boundless is an appropriate word for Rachel, who out of passion for the ocean worked many years to protect it from offshore oil drilling. During her over 50 years on the Mendocino coast, where she founded Rachel’s Inn (now SCP Mendocino Inn and Farm), her environmental activism led her to become a superdelegate to the Democratic Party and Chair of the Environmental Caucus. She felt also enriched by her volunteer work as treasured mentor to the many young people of middle and high school years she nurtured through the Partnership Scholars Program.
When you look closely at some of Rachel’s art works, among the lace-like apparent fragility of these hand sewn creations you may find objects such as bottle caps, Tyvek, even window screening: remnants of our cultural waste. “I am drawn to discarded materials as a way of environmental activism,” she says.
