Her last work with Oonah Ryan at Neighborhood Artisans allowed her to share her artistic talents, as she taught china painting on tile, fabric painting and acrylic painting on wood. With Oonah she organized sewing projects, one of which involved preparing materials for 200 students to produce more than twenty quilts in one day. The quilts were then given to the homeless and others in need connected with Neighborhood Artisans.
Dot's interest in Native American culture developed when she went on the six week American Experience program with Sue Rogers and Network of Sacred Heart Schools students in the summer of 1972: it ·was intensified as she worked with Native Americans in Detroit. In 1973 and '74 Dot volunteered with migrant workers in Michigan. (To learn more about Dot's life, click on the link under her picture.)
