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 reopened, and her art began flowing again in 2018, moving her down an exciting new path. 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 Utah 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; The Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA).
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.
Currently, Rosanna is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) where she is a Juried Artist Member and where she recently served on the CO/UT/ WY Regional Exhibition Committee. Locally, she served as Exhibitions Chair for the Utah Surface Design Group and now serves as Treasurer.
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, Utah where she lives with her husband, 3 rescue dogs, and a rescue kitty.