ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a fiber art adventurer, experimenting with flexibility and dimension while exploring tactility, whimsy, and ultimately our intimacy and connection with textiles. I began sewing at my mother’s knee and was taught by example the love of fabric. Although my sewing and quilting roots are obvious, I quickly moved through traditional quilting and on to fiber art, or textiles that removed themselves and their functionality from the bed and struck out with certainty to join art on the wall.
I am inspired by the world I inhabit and my often-quirky perception of what some might consider mundane. But I carry on capturing and interpreting the beauty or whimsy I find along my daily journey. I find comfort in creation, but there is also an exciting kind of alchemy in moving a flat medium into the third dimension, in transforming a woven surface with color and stitch, or in adding the textural elements of loose threads and raw and raveling edges.
Cloth is personal, intimate. It covers all of us day and night. And maybe because of that history of comfort and warmth against our skin, textile art is the perfect medium to invite, perhaps even compel, a viewer’s touch. And that, too, is part of the medium’s magic. If I could be granted one art wish, it would be that everyone who sees my work be allowed to touch it, for I think that intimacy would surely connect us. We as humans are born to touch—the world around us and each other.
My studio is in my home where I have a dedicated space to plan, paint, and stitch. My very basic older sewing machines, my inks, threads, eyes, and hands—these are my tools as I take fabric and transform it.
RESUME
Solo Exhibitions
“Chickens Impossible” Exhibit, Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch, Children’s Gallery, Utah, May 27 – July 1, 2026.
“Chickens Impossible” Exhibit, Holzer Community Gallery, Athens, Ohio, Dec. 2, 2025 through April 6, 2026.
“Sew Tactile (Please, Touch My Art)” Exhibit, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, Utah, November 17 – December 23, 2023.
Invitational Exhibitions
2026 “Chickens Impossible” Virtual Exhibit, Virginia Quilt Museum, May 12 – Aug 29, 2026.
2025 Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT, “Joy Full: A Display of Wonder and Delight,” curated by BDAC.
2024 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT, “It’s All Fun and Games,” (August 2024-July 2025), curated by Bianca Velasquez and the Springville Museum.
2002 Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT, Invitational: Utah Quilts: “Threads of Tradition and Innovation.”
2002 Utah Arts Council Traveling Exhibit Program, 2-Year Invitational Tour through Utah Venues.
2001 Rio Grande Depot Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, “Utah Arts Council Artist Grantee Invitational Exhibit.”
1998 San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA, Invitational Exhibit, “Go Figure.” Curator Robin Treen.
Juried Exhibitions
2026 SAQA Global Exhibit, “AI: Artistic Interpretations,” premiering at Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana February 2026 with multiple venues following into 2029. Jurors Michelle Schulte, Dr. Golden G. Richard III, and Brendan Harmon.
2025 The Vision Gallery, Chandler AZ, “Art Quilt 30: Palette Cleanser.” Juried by Susan Allred.
2025 Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT, “President’s Art Show 2025” (all mediums). Juried by President’s Art Show Committee.
2025 Core Art Space, Lakewood CO, “Fiber Art: Embracing the Craft.” Co-Curators Kathy Mitchell-Garton and Susan Dillon.
2025 Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT, “SWEAA-Statewide Emerging Artists Annual Competition.” All mediums. Juror Jorge Rojas.
2025 SAQA Special Exhibition, “Contemporary Craft Show.” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Juror Nancy O’Meara.
2025 Friends of Great Salt Lake, The Sorenson Community Campus Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, “Alfred Lambourne Prize” Exhibition (multidiscipline show). Juror(s) TBA.
2025 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, “International Fiber Arts XII” Exhibition, Sebastopol, CA. Jessica Hemmings and Ramekon O’Arwisters Jurors.
2025 SAQA Regional (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming) Exhibit, “Balance.” Multiple venues include the Durango Arts Center, July 15-Sept. 2; The Collective, Jan-March 2026; Red Rocks Community College, July – Sept. 2026, and traveling through 2027. Juror Karol Kusmaul.
2025 SAQA Virtual Gallery, “Below the Surface” Exhibition. On-line only at SAQA.com beginning May 2025. Juror Karen Peters.
2025 Church History Museum, Salt Lake City, UT. “13th International Art Competition–Strengthen the Hands that Hang Down.” For the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Jury panel of artists (Christian Bolt, Kazuko Covington, and Ima Naranjo Hale) and scholars (Amy Maxwell Howard and James Swensen).
2025 Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Art Museum, La Conner, WA, “Birds of a Fiber 2025″ Exhibit.
2024 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT. “38th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah.” Jurors Michael Hall, Madeline Rupard, Salma Djalal, and Emily Larsen.
2024 Friends of Great Salt Lake, The Sorenson Community Campus Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, “Alfred Lambourne Prize” (multidiscipline show). Juror Samantha Da Silva.
2024 SAQA Special Exhibition, “Contemporary Craft Show.” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Juror Bruce Hoffman.
2024 AAUW Utah Women Artists, “Exhibit 2024: Celebrating Women Bold and Beautiful.” Utah Cultural Celebration Center, West Valley, UT. Juror Madeleine Plonsker.
2024 Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT, “49th Annual Statewide Competition” (all Utah artists, all mediums). Juror Joseph Ostraff, Art Department Chair, Brigham Young University.
2024 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT, “100th Statewide Spring Salon” (best in Utah contemporary art, all mediums). Jurors Lauren Tresp, Publisher and Editor, Southwest Contemporary, Mian Situ, and Bryon Draper.
2024 SAQA Regional Exhibit New Mexico (and including Arizona, and UT/CO/WY): “Personality Plus,” Carlsbad Museum, NM and touring through 2025. Juried by Barbara Yates Beasley.
2024 SAQA Global Traveling Exhibit in Collaboration with John Hopkins University Press: “Fierce Planets,” Louisiana State Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2024). Jurors Dr. Sabine Stanley, J. D. Talasek, and Dr. Denis Wirtz. Additional venues are the New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts, January 14 – May 3, 2025; Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida, June 16 – August 15 2025; Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut, September 25 – January 5 2026; BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, Maryland, March 3 – April 19 2026; Shafer Art Gallery, Great Bend, Kansas: June 12 through August 15, 2026; Farmington Museum, Farmington, New Mexico, November 28, 2026- March 27, 2027; and Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, Texas: April 16 – June 6, 2027.
2024 Brigham City Museum of Art, Utah. “Intersections: A Utah Surface Design Group Showcase.” Juror Alana Blumenthal, museum Director.
2023 West Valley Art Museum, Peoria, AZ. “Quilts That Tell a Story.” Juried by Betty Hahn.
2023 Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT. “President’s Art Show 2023” (all Utah artists, all mediums). Juried by President’s Art Show Committee.
2023 Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ. “Art Quilts XXVIII: Breaking Rules, Honoring Tradition.” Juror Shelly White.
2023 Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT. “The Golden Hour: 9th Annual Plein Air Competition” (Non-Traditional Category). Juror Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen.
2023 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT. “37th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah.” Jurors J. Kirk Richards and Winston Kyan.
2023 Covey Center for the Arts, Provo, UT. “Fall Art Showcase 2023.” Jurors composed of the staff of the Art Center.
2023 Eccles Center for the Arts, Ogden, UT. “49th Annual Statewide Competition Art Exhibit” (all Utah artists, all mediums). Juror Kory Fluckiger.
2023 Modern Visual Arts (MVA) Gallery, Bethlehem, PA. “Landscapes: Serene and Savage.” Anonymous jurying.
2023 Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA. “Fiber Art: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts.” Jurors Sue Colozzi and Marjorie Kaye.
2023 SAQA Virtual Gallery, “Humor Us” Exhibition. On-line only at SAQA.com. Jurors Helen Blumen and Andra Stanton.
2023 Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg VA. “No Boundaries.” Juror Dr. Carolyn L. Mazloomi.
2023 Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT, “48th Annual Statewide Competition” (all Utah artists, all mediums). Juror Emily Larsen, Associate Director, Springville Museum of Art.
2023 SAQA California/Nevada Regional collaborative exhibit with California Society of Printmakers, Art Ark, San Jose, CA, “Printed and Stitched.” Touring through 2027, including Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA; San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA, and Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, Alta Loma, CA. Juror Christine Aaron.
2023 Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Art Museum, La Conner, WA, “6th Annual Birds of a Fiber Exhibit.”
2023 The Covey Center for the Arts, Provo, UT, “Resurfacing 2023” by the Utah Surface Design Group. Juror Martha Klein.
2022 Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT, “President’s Art Show 2022” (all Utah artists, all mediums). Juried by President’s Art Show Committee.
2022 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT, “36th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah,” (All Utah artists, all mediums). Jurors Dr. Rita Wright, SMA Director, and Esther Hi’ilani Candari.
2022 Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ, “Art Quilts XXVII: Re-Vitalized.” Juror Shin-hee-Chin.
2022 SAQA SOFA/Intersect Chicago 2022 Art Fair, Chicago’s Navy Pier. SAQA Global/Special Exhibit. Juror Carol Sauvion. (Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.)
2022 The Utah Cultural Celebration Center, West Valley, UT, “Utah Women Artists (AAUW of Utah) 20th Biennial Juried Exhibition: Celebrating Utah Women Artists.” Juror Josh Heuman.
2022 Friends of Great Salt Lake, The Sorenson Community Campus Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, “Alfred Lambourne Prize” (multidiscipline show). Juror Jaclyn Wright.
2022 Brigham City Museum of Art, Brigham City, UT, “SAQA Regional (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming) Exhibit: Wild!” Jurors Alana Blumenthal, Petra Fallaux, and Dolores Miller. Multiple venues in Colorado and Wyoming, including The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.
2022 Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT, “47th Annual Statewide Competition” (all Utah artists, all mediums). Juror Nancy Rivera, Utah Division of Arts & Museums.
2022 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT, “98th Statewide Spring Salon” (best in Utah contemporary art, all mediums). Jurors Fidalis Buehler and Laura Durham.
2022 SAQA Global Exhibit: “Fur, Fangs, Feathers, and Fins,” Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona. Juror Emily Jan. Additional venues include Quilt Festival Long Beach, CA (2023); The Detroit Zoo (2024); and Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK (2025).
2021 Brigham City Museum of Art, Brigham City, UT, Utah Design Craft Artists 3rd Legacy Exhibition, “Waterways.” Juror Virginia Catherall.
2021 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT. “35th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah,” (All Utah artists, all mediums.) Jurors Dr. Rita Wright, SMA Director, and Jean Irwin, Arts Education Manager, State of Utah, Division of Arts and Museums.
2021 SAQA SOFA/Intersect Chicago 2021 Art Fair, Chicago Illinois. SAQA Global Exhibit. Juror Barbara Lee Smith. (In person exhibition was cancelled due to COVID and a virtual exhibit was hosted by SAQA.)
2021 Studio Door Gallery, San Diego, CA, SAQA Regional Exhibit (So. California/So. Nevada), “Domino Effect,” Juror Patric Stillman.
2021 Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts + Textiles, “Members Challenge Exhibition: First Responders,” Virtual On-Line exhibit on the museum’s website, San Diego, CA.
2021 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah, “97th Statewide Spring Salon” (best in Utah contemporary art, all mediums), Jurors Scotti Hill and Micha Christensen.
2021 Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad CA, SAQA Regional Exhibit (S. California/S. Nevada), “Here and Now, Now and Then,” Juror Sandra Sider.
2020 Brigham City Museum of Art, Brigham City, UT, Utah Design Craft Artists 2nd Legacy Exhibition “Design of the Times,” Juror Nadra Haffar (artist and museum educator).
2020 The Utah Cultural Celebration Center, Utah Women Artists (AAUW of Utah) 19th Biennial Juried Exhibition, “Celebrating Women Vibrant and Equal, 2020,” Salt Lake City, UT (became a virtual show due to pandemic), Juror, Susan M. Anderson, Independent Curator and Art Historian.
2019 Brigham City Museum of Art, Utah Design Craft Artists UDCA Premier Legacy Exhibition, “The Handmade Object,” Brigham City, UT, Jurors museum staff and former UDCA Board members.
2004 Ayer Lofts Gallery, “Small Works for Small Spaces,” Lowell, MA, Juror Maxine Farkas.
2004 International Quilt Festival, “I Remember Mama” Invitational and Traveling Exhibit, Houston, TX.
2003 Thayer Memorial Library, “Dreaming the Garden” Traveling Exhibit, Lancaster, MA.
2002 Whistler House Museum of Art, Juried Exhibition: “Art Quilts at the Whistler,” Curator Catherine Eldridge, Lowell, MA.
2002 Bountiful Davis Art Center, 2002 Statewide Competition “Vision and Victories,” Salt Lake City, UT (in conjunction with the Winter Olympics).
2002 Woman Made Gallery, Juried Exhibit “Censorship! A Show of Suppressed Art,” Juror Rosemary Luckett, Chicago, IL.
2002 Mansfield/Richland OH County Library, “Fine Focus 2002, Art Quilts in Small Format,” National Juried Exhibit, Jurors Laura Cater-Woods, Kim Ritter, and Judy B. Dales.
2000 Springville Museum of Art, American Association of University Women (AAUW) 10th Utah Juried Exhibition Springville, UT, Juror Liliane Francuz.
2000 Brush Art Gallery, “Quilt 21: American Art Quilts for the 21st Century,” Lowell, MA and National Juried Touring Exhibition, Jurors Maxine Farkas and Sandra Sider.
2000 Vertigo Studios, “Roots of Racism: Ignorance and Fear” Memphis, TN and National Juried Exhibition/Touring Arts in Embassies Program through the State Department. Curator Susan Lumsden.
1999 Quilt National ’99, “The Best in Contemporary Quilting” Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center International Exhibit, Athens, OH and touring venues, Jurors: Nancy Crow, Caryl Bryer Fallert, and Bruce Pepich.
1999 “Fiber Celebration ’99” Northern Colorado Weavers Guild National Juried Show, Estes Park, CO. Juror Jean Scorgie, Editor of Handwoven Magazine.
1999 Cornell Museum, “Fine Focus,” Internet On-Line Traveling Juried 1 of Miniature Quilts, Delray Beach, FL, Juror Sandra Sider.
1998 Sixth International Quilt Expo, “Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine “Rhapsody of Roses” Juried International Competition; Innsbruck, Austria; Quilt Expo, Houston TX; Quilt Market Providence, RI. Additional venues including the Musée des Tissues, Lyon France. Curator Robert Shaw.
Group Exhibitions
2027 – 4 Common Corners exhibit booked at Covey Center for the Arts, Smoot Gallery, Provo, UT, collections to be determined.
2026 – 4 Common Corners exhibits at: Salt Lake Community College, SLC UT, “Hidden Life.” Ground Floor Artists, Surprise, AZ, “Juxtaposition” and “Improv at the Corners.” Durango Art Center, Durango, CO, “Abandoned,” “Where the Pavement Ends,” and “Hidden Life.” Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, “Cottonwoods” and “Abandoned.” Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruses, NM, “Cottonwoods.”
2025 – 4 Common Corners exhibits at: Covey Center for the Arts, Provo, UT; International Quilt Festival, Houston TX, “4 Common Corners Rocks.”
2024 – 4 Common Corners exhibits at: Cochise College, Sierra Vista, AZ, “Transparency.” Open Space Visitors Center, Albuquerque, NM, “Water,” and “Snow and Ice.” Norick Art Center Gallery, OKC University, Oklahoma City, “Cryptography.” Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO, “Thorns and Spikes.” Los Alamos Library Step Up Gallery, “Heads or Tails.”
2024 – Utah Surface Design Group showcase, “Intersections,” at Brigham City Museum of Art, Brigham City, UT.
2023 – 4 Common Corners exhibits at: Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ, “Snow and Ice” and “Oasis.” WHAM Community Art Center, Surprize, AZ, “The Way We Were” and “Transparency.” The Macey Center, New Mexico Tech, “Cryptography,” “Transparency,” and “Heads and Tails.” Los Alamos, NM, “The Way We Were.”
2022 Doña Ana Arts Council Gallery, “Oasis” and “Cryptography”, 4 Common Corners Group, Las Cruces, NM.
2019 Union Station Gallery, “Entangled” Utah Surface Design Group, Ogden, UT.
2004 Rio Grande Depot Gallery, Salt Lake Surface Design Group “Members Invitational Exhibit” Salt Lake City, UT.
2004 Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, “Building Bridges” Utah Designer Craft Alliance Juried Exhibit, Weber State University, Ogden UT.
2003 Rio Grande Depot Gallery, Salt Lake Surface Design “Members Invitational Exhibit,” Salt Lake City, UT.
2002 Finch Lane Gallery, “Object Poetry” Utah Designer Craft Alliance “40th Anniversary Exhibit, SLC, UT, J”urors Martha Klein and Lennee Eller.
2002 Brigham City Museum of Art, Utah Designer Craft Alliance Group “Members Only Exhibit,” Brigham City, UT.
2001 Rio Grande Gallery, “Members Juried Exhibit” for Utah Designer Craft Alliance, SLC, UT.
2001 Art Access Gallery, Utah Designer Craft Alliance “Inaugural Juried Exhibit,” Salt Lake City, UT.
Reviews
2025 15 Bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine, November 10, 2025, “This Year’s President’s Art Show Offers an Encyclopedic Snapshot of Utah Art Now,” https://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/this-years-presidents-art-show-offers-an-encyclopedic-snapshot-of-utah-art-now/
2025 15 Bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine, September 28, 2025, “The Weaver’s Guild Biennial Reveals the Artistry of Fabric and Fiber,” https://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/the-weavers-guild-biennial-reveals-the-artistry-of-fabric-and-fiber/
2025 15 Bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine, January 28, 2025, “Eighteen Artists Come Together to Celebrate Joy, Memory and Childhood at BDAC,” Geoff Wichert. Eighteen Artists Come Together to Celebrate Joy, Memory and Childhood at BDAC – Artists of Utah’s 15 Bytes
2024 15 Bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine, September 10, 2024, “AAUW Exhibit Celebrates Women and Their Evolving Art Forms,” Geoff Wichert. https://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/aauw-exhibit-celebrates-women-and-their-evolving-art-forms/
2023 15 Bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine, November 24, 2023, “Rosanna Lynne Welter Reveals a New Perspective on Fabric and Form,” Geoff Wichert. Rosanna Lynne Welter Reveals a New Perspective on Fabric and Form – Artists of Utah’s 15 Bytes
2022 15 Bytes, Utah’s Art Magazine, May 16, 2022, “BDAC’s Juried Annual Leaves an Impression,” Geoff Wichert. BDAC’s Juried Annual Leaves an Impression – Artists of Utah’s 15 Bytes
2022 Desert Exposure Arts & Leisure in Southern New Mexico, “Quilt Tales” a review of 4CC’s “Cryptography” and “Oasis” exhibit at the Dona Ana Arts Council Gallery.
Awards/Grants.
2026 Individual Artist Advancement Grant, Utah Division of Arts & Museums.
2025 Award for Artistic Merit Honorable Mention, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Statewide Emerging Artists Annual.
2024 Honorable Mention, Utah Surface Design Group exhibit, “Intersections.”
2023 Second Place, Cash Award, Bountiful Davis Art Center “The Golden Hour, 9th Annual Plein Air Competition.”
2023 Second Place, Cash Award, Utah Surface Design Group exhibit, “Resurfacing.”
2022 Third Place, Cash Award, Bountiful Davis Art Center 47th Statewide Exhibit.
2021 Third Place, Brigham City Museum of Art, Legacy exhibit, “Waterways.”
2020 Honorable Mention, Brigham City Museum of Art, Legacy exhibit, “Design of the Times.”
2019 Best of Show Purchase Award, Brigham City Museum of Art, Legacy exhibit in honor of the Utah Designer Craft Alliance (entries in fiber, wood, glass, clay, metal, and stone), Brigham City, UT.
1999 Utah Arts Council/National Endowment for the Arts – Individual Artist Grant.
2003 Utah Arts Council – Wrote Exhibition Grant awarded to the Utah Designer Craft Alliance to mount the show “Building Bridges.”
Media/Publications
2025 SAQA Journal, Vol. 35 No. 1, Member Gallery, “Joyful Color.”
2025 Alfred Lambourne Prize Exhibition Catalog.
2025 Salt Lake Community College “Presidents Art Show” Catalog.
2025 Quilting Arts Magazine, Summer 2025, Issue 126, “4 Common Corners Rocks.”
2024 Issues in Science and Technology magazine, National Academy of Sciences, Arizona State University, Vol XLI, No. 1, Fall 2024 Gallery.
2024 SAQA Global Exhibit “Fierce Planets” Catalog.
2024 Alfred Lambourne Prize Catalog.
2023 Vision Gallery “Art Quilts XXVIII: “Breaking Rules – Honoring Traditions” show catalog.
2023 Quilting Arts Magazine, Summer 2023, Issue 118, “Cryptography: A Gallery from 4 Common Corners.”
2023 Book Photo: “Stitched Journeys with Birds,” Martha Sielman, Schiffer Publishing, ISBN: 9780764366925.
2022 SAQA Global Exhibit “Fur, Fangs, Feathers, and Fins” Catalog.
2022 Vision Gallery “Art Quilts XXVII: Re-Vitalized” show Catalog.
2022 Alfred Lambourne Prize Exhibition Catalog.
2022 AAUW Exhibition 20th Biennial Exhibition Catalog.
2022 Bountiful Davis Art Center Statewide Exhibition Catalog.
2022 SAQA Regional “Wild!” Exhibition catalog.
2020 AAUW Exhibition 19th Biennial Exhibition Catalog.
2005 Book Photo: “Art Quilt: A Celebration of 400 Stunning Contemporary Designs,” Lark Press.
2003 Book Photo: “The Roots of Racism” Exhibit Compilation, U.S. Embassy/Islamabad Art in Embassies Program.
2002 Magazine Photo: Quilting Quarterly Vol 32 Fall, “Batt to Front: 11 Artists Challenge What Goes Where.”
2002 Magazine Photo: Quilting Quarterly Vol 30 No. 4, “How to Launch a Touring Quilt Show.”
2002 Book Photo: “America From the Heart Exhibit” C&T Publishing.
2002 Newspaper Photo: Deseret News 4/28/2002 First Page, Arts Section, covering Brigham Young University.
2002 Museum of Art Invitational, “Utah Quilts: Threads of Tradition and Innovation,” Provo, UT.
2001 Book Photo: “Batik for Artists and Quilters.”
2001 Book Photo: “I Remember Mama.”
2000 Catalog Photo: AAUW of Utah, 10th Juried Exhibition.
1999 Book Photo: “QN 99 The Best in Contemporary Quilting,” Lark Press.
1999 Book Photo: “Quilt 21: Quilts for the 21st Century,” Quilt 21 Press.
1998 Article: American Quilter Magazine, Author, July 1998 Issue, “Mega Fun with Monoprinting.”
1996 Article: American Quilter Magazine, Co-Author, Summer 1997 Issue “Special Effects for Fabrics.”
Work in Private Collections
Del Thomas/Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection, Southern California.
Mr. and Mrs. Gast Waltzing Collection, Luxembourg, Europe.
Peggy Delany Collection, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
Maggie Parke Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Peterson, Toquerville, Utah.
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Passey, Apex, North Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parke, Leander, TX
Other Professional Activity
2024 Interview with Brigham City Museum of Art in conjunction with the Utah Surface Design Group Showcase, “Intersections.” Available on YouTube.
2022 Fiber Art Symposium Instructor, via worldwide online platform Curious Mondo, teaching live class on painting with inks on fabric.
2021 Fiber Art Symposium Instructor, via worldwide online platform Curious Mondo, teaching live class on creating fabric greeting cards.
Professional Affiliations
4 Common Corners regional fiber art group member, by invitational (4commoncorners.com).
SAQA Juried Artist member, SAQA Colorado/Utah/Wyoming Regional Group member and served on the Exhibit Committee, secondary member SAQA New Mexico Region (SAQA.com).
Utah Surface Design Group (USDG) Board Member, served on the Exhibit Committee and served as the Treasurer until mid-2025.
BIO
Rosanna Lynne Welter has roots in traditional quilting but quickly transitioned to textile art once she began exploring the exciting processes and techniques advancing the fiber arts movement. Just as she was emerging in the field, “life” put art on extended pause as she cared for elderly parents and earned a living. Eventually the long drought ended, the floodgates opened, and her art began flowing again, moving her down exciting new paths. As a self-taught artist, her work is filled with naivety, dimension, whimsy, texture, and lots of thread.
Rosanna has competed and been juried into exhibits locally (Brigham City Museum of Art, Springville Museum of Art, Salt Lake Community College, Bountiful Davis Art Center), regionally (Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, CA; Studio Door Gallery, San Diego, CA; Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, CA; Dona Ana Arts Council, Los Cruces, NM), and nationally/internationally (Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ; Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Art Museum, La Conner, WA; Detroit Zoo; SOFA [now Intersect Chicago], Navy Pier, Chicago in 2021 and 2022; Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ; Long Beach Quilt Festival, Long Beach, CA; Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK; The Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA).
Rosanna’s work is in private collections and has been published in multiple books and catalogs. Her early works were exhibited at Quilt National, International Quilt Expo in Innsbruck Austria, and the Musée des Tissue in Lyon France. She is also a past recipient of a Utah Arts Council/NEA Individual Artist Grant and in 2026 received a Utah Arts & Museums Career Advancement Grant.
Currently, Rosanna is a member of 4 Common Corners, an invitational fiber arts group composed of artists living in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico (4commoncorners.com), and Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA.com) where she is a Juried Artist and where she served on the CO/UT/ WY Regional Exhibition Committee. Locally, she has served as Exhibitions Chair, as well as Treasurer, for the Utah Surface Design Group.
Rosanna, an Idaho native who has lived most of her life in Utah, is currently focusing on her daily art practice at her in-home studio in West Valley City, Utah where she lives with her husband, a rescue doggie, and a rescue kitty.
Rosanna Lynne Welter 