STEFROSE
Jeweler & Textile Artist

Stefrose is a deaf female artist born and raised in rural North Dakota. She creates art which emerges from the passion of narratives: the pieces speak of tradition passing down through generations of women in her family. She holds firmly to crocheting skills taught by her great grandmother. The art of sewing within the family is one of several inspirations Stefrose uses to design textiles that articulate the combination of tradition and various forms of communication significant in making Stefrose the artist in this modern day America where the sole purpose is to find a way of standing apart from the other artists in her community. During her bachelor program at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, she chiefly worked in jewelry making, but this was where she rediscovered the forgotten love of crocheting in working with silver wire. As she moved on to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts at Montana State University in Bozeman, she incorporated sewing and crocheting into new techniques for textile pieces. This rejuvenated the infatuation between tradition and an innovation in creating a middle area or rather a gray area in which Stefrose’s story becomes another textile in time and history. Her life as a deaf woman struggling to find her own place in this country and her own history is the story shown.

Stefrose continue to work on her art to get out there to represent her life and reach out to people who can relate to her based on their own experiences. She enjoys drawing the audience into her works being able to relate based on different struggling experiences in life. She applies what she has learned through traditional way of making art along with her family traditions and presents it into professional arts of narrative life stories where everyone can relate to. She have had shows in Rochester, NY and Bozeman, MT and won awards for academic Juried Student Exhibition while attending for her degrees. She continues to do commissions and shows to get her name out there to be heard through her works.