Abbe Sennett

Born September 9, 1952 to Naomi and Richard Sennett in Chicago, Abbe was raised by her nanny Marcy Moreland (Actress: Our Gang Comedies) and daughter to Mantan Moreland in the Charlie Chan movies. Marcy would take her to hear and meet people like Ella Fitzgerald backstage at Ravinia. Marcy would become instrumental in how Abbe viewed the world with unyielding passion, fighting hard to make it a better place.

She graduated from Highland Park High school in just 3 years with an art scholarship to Washington University. Determined to improve her skills, she received a scholarship to Lake Forest College where she studied under Michael Croydon. This would lead to a trip to England and have her portfolio reviewed by Henry Moore the famous sculptor. He honored her by selecting one of her monoprints for his personal collection.

Abbe Sennett was a true renaissance woman with many talents. While her primary passion was art inspired by her artist mother, she was also an intrepid inventor creating novel solutions including a patented Popcorn Catcher that removed seeds. Her other innovations included shoes with liquid encased soles to soften impact.

She created the Dot Line greeting cards company and worked with her sister Sandy to sell them throughout America and the UK. They appeared on TV shows such as the Regis Philbin Show. Her paintings and monoprints were widely exhibited in Chicago area and also found their way into the Art Collections of Henry Moore, Clement Stone Sr. and Ohio State University.

Abbe widened her artistic skills to include graphic design, illustration, jewelry and photography. This resulted in a top photography award in a juried exhibit in Highland Park. Her illustrations found a home at Playboy Magazine. She was discovered by Kerig Pope the Playboy Art Director, whose own art is in the Smithsonian.

Pushing her skills even further, Abbe became a political cartoonist striving to bring social justice to many causes such as AIDS. After being refused publication about an AIDS cartoon, she pushed on to design and produce a political pin that was ultimately accepted for health classes in the New York school system. As a result of her insightful concepts, she was juried into the prestigious Association of American Cartoonists being one of first women so accepted.

On March 30, 2003 the day after her father died, Abbe discovered that she had neck cancer resulting in an 8 hour surgery followed by maximum radiation. They gave her less than 25% chance of survival. But, survived she did to go on to form Medical ID Fashions a jewelry company to help save more lives while presenting to the world an artistic and uplifting bracelet. She expanded the bracelets with an unremovable solution for Alzheimer’s and Autism which now also includes electronic tracking.

As a cancer survivor she donated a portion of proceeds from Medical ID Fashions to cancer research.