Collection Focus: Rosita Johanson at RAM

 

A dressmaker by trade, Rosita Johanson (1937-2007) applied her natural ability to work with threads and fabric to creating colorful embroidered narratives full of people, animals, and activity. Working on a small scale (generally 12 x 12 to 20 x 20 inches), Johanson would piece together a composition using appliqué, machine embroidery, and hand stitching. Through this Collections Focus solo exhibition, RAM offers twenty pieces and an in-depth examination of a talented fiber artist whose work has not been shown extensively in the United States.