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[Gallery] [Biography]
Child on Bed
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Rita Dorfmueller Bishop began cutting silhouettes when she was
14 years old. The youngest child of Pat Ramos Dorfmueller.
Rita helped with her mother during holidays and summers.
By the time she was 18, she had worked in over 14 states.
Rita cut silhouettes in department stores, banks, and fairs;
by age 19 she had her own agent. |
When Rita graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art
in Textile Design in 1983, she had been working 9 years
as a silhouette artist. In fact, she had used that skill to
help pay her tuition there. In 1984, Rita started her own
business designing and producing jewelry in Alaska. |
Two Silhouettes
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Single Man Silhouette
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For the past 19 years, Rita and her husband Bill have worked
together as jewelers for their own company,
Fishing for Gold
and HockeyJewelry.com,
in Fairbanks. They sell beautiful gold
nugget jewelry to gift shops all over Alaska. Rita has not
forgotten her mother’s legacy, however, and continues to cut
silhouettes in Fairbanks, Anchorage, Kodiak, Ketchikan, Wasilla,
and other Alaskan cities. To her knowledge, she is the only
silhouette artist practicing in Alaska. |
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