Rosanne Somerson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rosanne Somerson
Occupation	Furniture Designer
Date Of Birth	Jun 21, 1954(1954-06-21)
Age	70
Birthplace	Philadelphia
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

Rosanne Somerson Biography

Rosanne Somerson is one of the most popular and richest Furniture Designer who was born on June 21, 1954 in Philadelphia, United States. Rosanne Somerson, born June 21, 1954, is an American woodworker, furniture designer/maker and educator. She is currently the President of Rhode Island School of Design. Her career and work have had a significant impact on the development of Studio Furniture.

Somerson gave a speech at the Nantucket Project in 2015, as well as the Drucker Forum in Vienna, Art Basel Miami Beach and the Nantucket Project in 2015. The three-year renovations of RISD’s Illustration Studies Building were completed. An opening ceremony was held as part the college’s annual alumni and parent weekend. In October 2015, Somerson was elected seventeenth president at RISD.

She taught woodworking with the Harvard Extension School from 1977 to 1978, and at the Boston Architectural Center in 1981. Somerson joined the Rhode Island School of Design faculty in 1985. Starting in 1985, Somerson ran the M.F.A. Graduate Program in Furniture Design and she co-founded the creation of the Furniture Design department in 1995. She served as RISD’s interim associate provost for Academic Affairs from 2005 to 2007, as interim provost from 2011 to 2012, as provost from 2012 to 2013 and as interim president from 2014 to 2015. The RISD Board of Trustees appointed her the college’s 17th president in February 18, 2015.

Somerson began to focus more on the emotional experience of furniture as she developed her career and work. The 1992 piece, “Botanical Reading Couch”, invites viewers to recline in the piece and recall a favorite couch from childhood or home. This particular work is not a way to express yourself as an artist, but rather a concern for the physical and emotional needs of the user. Because furniture is intimate and interactive, Somerson was able to invoke memories and emotions in the viewer. Somerson wrote in a 1991 artist statement that “My hope was to help the viewer find their own place of emotional satisfaction, coaxed by and guided by furniture’s utility in both it’s obvious and less obvious functions.”

Rosanne Somerson Net Worth

Rosanne Somerson is one of the richest Furniture Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rosanne Somerson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1976, she received her degree in Industrial Design. During this period of transition, she took a semester out of her studies at RISD in order to attend full-time furniture-making workshops at Peter’s Valley Craftsmen. Somerson was a Fine Woodworking magazine correspondent after graduation. She assisted in photography for her mentor, Tage Frid’s “Tage Frid Teaches woodworking” three-part book series published by Taunton Press (1996).

Since 1979, Somerson has been a full-time professional in her studio, Rosanne Somerson furniture. She designs and builds furniture for commission and exhibition. Smokestack Studios is her current studio in Fall River, Massachusetts. Somerson is known primarily for one-of-a-kind and custom work, but is also a partner in DEZCO, LLC, a small-scale production furniture company which focuses on environmentally-responsible and design-conscious production furniture.

After being appointed president of the university in February 2015, Somerson appointed Pradeep Sharma to be Provost. Somerson’s first speaking engagements as president came in the spring at the National Art Education Association Annual Convention and at South By Southwest EDU in 2015, where she discussed the impact of critical making. In April, 44 technicians at the college went on strike, but the three-day job action concluded with the ratification of their contract. In May, the work of Apparel Design seniors was showcased in New York City for the first time at RISD Backstudio. Somerson’s first semester as president concluded with filmmaker John Waters delivering the college’s commencement address. His remarks went viral and have been turned into a book.

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Rosanne Ranked on the list of most popular Furniture Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rosanne Somerson celebrates birthday on June 21 of every year.