Rosemary Barile was born in 1955 in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. She received herMaster of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Washington in 1997. The focus of her studies were Fiber Arts and Buddhist Art History in Asia. As an undergraduate she traveled to Nagoya Japan for the International Shibori Symposium. This trip proved to be a pivotal in influencing her art, as well as, her personal life. While in Japan she was introduced to Buddhist and Shinto spiritual practices and Japanese Tea Ceremony. As a graduate student she went on to study the ritual of Tea Ceremony with the Seattle Urasenke Foundation and began her ongoing exploration of Hatha Yoga. Rosemary left the Seattle area in 2005 to live on the island of Maui. While living in Hawaii she was represented by Maui Hands Gallery and her work was selected for Art Maui in 2006. She returned to the mainland in 2008 and now lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Rosemary’s work has been exhibited at the Center on Contemporary Arts (CoCA) in Seattle Washington, the Prichard Gallery at the University of Idaho, The Sun Valley Center for the Arts, and the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington. She is currently represented by Laura Rathe Fine Art in Houston and Dallas, Texas, and by Patricia Carlisle Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
