Louise A. Freedman was born in St. Louis in 1915 and received her BA degree ar Vassar College in 1937. She then studied at the Art Students' League in New York City. Freedman first learned the technique of lithography from Harry Sternberg, a professor at Vassar. Her innate talent in working in this medium was so strong that she continued in the print-making venue and was, along with Sternberg, one of the founding members of the “Silk Screen Group”, later known as the Serigraph Society. Influenced by the WPA and the turmoil of the war years, her work became “socially conscious” art. A long-time resident of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, she taught and lectured for many years introducing both adults and youth to the techniques of printmaking and a love of the medium.
She has exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Fransisco Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum among others, her work has been shown internationally in Norway, France, India, Turkey, and in South America.

Included in the permanent collections of many museums, her screenprint “Quartet” was purchased in 1992 by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and “The Spotter” by the British Museum. In 1996, ten of her serigraphs were shown in the exhibit “WPA COLOR PRINTS: Images from the Federal Art Project” which was held in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
She was married to the painter Maurice Freedman.