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Miriam Rawson was born on Christmas Day, the first child of an artist mother and rancher/carpenter father. Their Southern Colorado home is where her art education began. After university, she discovered the world of quilting and learned to design with fabric. Her creations were published by McGraw-Hill, Better Homes and Gardens, McCalls, Primitive Quilts, Lark Publishing, etc. Miriam co-produced a nationwide PBS special, A Touch of Cloth. Her creative work also included managing professional display teams in Houston and traveling to Asia as a Designer/Buyer for a silk florals wholesale company whose clients included TJ Max.
At the university level, Miriam majored in Music Theory -- for three long years -- until she took a non-major drawing class and immediately changed her major to Fine Arts. Her love of music now finds its place in her studio, where her musical muses enhance her creative work.
Miriam is a successful painter as well as a fabric artist. She divides her time as a freelance designer for Marcus Fabrics and figurative painting with oils. She creates quilts, cloth dolls, quilted clothing, and props for wholesale trade booths as well as for the Marcus website. She loves the variety and challenges of working with fabricand the challenge of telling stories with a brush and layers of paint.
Miriam and her husband currently live in historical Santa Clara, a desert town in Southern Utah near Zion National Park, a region replete with art and quilt groups.
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