http://www.rozritter.com/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2014-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1416192046202-HVVOD61NYIPAV1V7MG78/The-More-Things-Change-.jpg The More Things Change ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1416192046202-HVVOD61NYIPAV1V7MG78/The-More-Things-Change-.jpg The More Things Change ... http://www.rozritter.com/new-gallery-1-1 daily 0.75 2013-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4fd1028ee4b02be53c65dfb3/1377895224064-0ZVD0D4POA1VF6DXV8A6/0e5acc603d6e38038ec63503ea01a1af.jpg Snow http://www.rozritter.com/rozrittersquarespace daily 0.75 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1410046375916-LKKSKCDUPMVNHSNU6ZPV/roz-ritter-39-mcclellan-street-1.jpg Reflections on an Ordinary Life - 39 McLellan Street 21 x 29 x 5 Oil Cloth, hand embroidery, photo transfer A favorite time from my youth was when my father would bring me home Little Lulu Whitman comic books. In this piece I recreate a memory from pages from one of those books, about the bully who took my “baby carriage” while I was walking through the park across the street from our apartment building. 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1410045569132-HQUQX02HNG3VEXUOZSLJ/roz-ritter-more-things-to-do-1.jpg Reflections on an Ordinary Life - More Things to Do 68 x 24 x6 Vintage Brownie Dress (circa 1949)Polyester fabric, embroidery thread, photo transfer from Brownie Scout Handbook This piece, with it's oversized Brownie tie, represents the expectations and burdens imposed on girls who were raised in the 1950's. 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1470004987238-KUC82IU9V90KNIZBZFA1/I+Believe.JPG Reflections on an Ordinary Life - I Believe 38 x 15 Hand Embroidery, 1953 6th grade autograph book belonging to the artist. hand-dyed cotton, oil cloth Hopes and dreams for a girl graduating 6th grade in 1953. 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1410045711118-7GKFW79LBZPURQ35MHL1/roz-ritter-archies-girl-1.jpeg Reflections on an Ordinary Life - Archie's Girl 63 x 38 x 22 Vintage 50’s letterman’s jacket, Archie/Betty & Veronica Comics, Crinoline Petticoat, fifties accessories, tea-dyed felt, fabric, pearls, collage, stitching. An exploration of how comic books informed girls of my generation about relationships between the sexes. 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1410046200368-66K4HF2AL28W44HUTXK2/roz-ritter-self-portrait-1.jpg Reflections on an Ordinary Life - Self Portrait 61 x 26 x 2 c.1962 deconstructed linen wedding dress (belonging to the artist), hand embroidery, photo transfer. My transformation from a 1950’s housewife in Los Angeles to living in a tipi in the San Cruz Mountains. I embroidered the story on my wedding dress which I deconstructed to represent the damage I did to my marriage in the process. 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1410045850664-L5ZTVEYJM74HZ5HU6HR2/roz-ritter-page-165-1.jpg Reflections on an Ordinary Life - pg 165 70 x 22 x 20 Vintage 1960’s pattern maternity dress-machine made, hand embroidery, Dr. Benjamin Spock 1960’s “Baby and Child Care”, photo transfer. When my first born son, Anthony, was 2 years old, Dr. Spock's, Baby and Child Care was the mother’s bible. On pg. 165, he said “never allow your children to sleep in your bed". One night, I walked my 2 year old son back to his own bed 41 times, completely against my natural instinct. 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1472573459394-A26GNRM8MLTGKVT5MJ2T/_DSC2533.jpg Reflections on an Ordinary Life - "You look Fat" 10 x 11 x 6 Hand embroidery, applique on vintage girdle As long as I can remember I had a belly! In Junior High my girlfriends rang our door bell and ran away, leaving a girdle on my doorstep. “You look fat”, he said when I put on my bikini at the beginning of summer. Not long after I read an interview in the National Enquirer with Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru. It said, “the new diet craze is throwing up after you eat”, adding “it was good for your stomach muscles.” Bingo! 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1598216725806-L0BZD1A83HW0WRKJZWS6/image-asset.jpeg Reflections on an Ordinary Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1614634813433-GNU1CJYUARID814CW9M3/_DSC8450.jpg Reflections on an Ordinary Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1604867834994-0UN668J9DYE9I0FL9FLH/Hanging+by+the+thread+copy+2.jpg Reflections on an Ordinary Life - Hanging by a Thread 22 x 23 Hand embroidery, solvy 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1750362775591-7EKK9O32WBG54KU1D2D2/The+Journey+is+the+Destination_detail.jpg Reflections on an Ordinary Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1456964126476-WDEYA9RQNE0QG87HO3GA/Roz+Ritter_The+Great+Unknow.jpg Reflections on an Ordinary Life http://www.rozritter.com/if-it-wrinkles daily 0.75 2022-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1446498148081-RZ47ABDW87JMORMZ9F6F/If+it+Wrinkles.jpg If it Wrinkles - If it Wrinkles it Must be Real 40 x 60 Hand embroidery, photo transfer (photo of the artist), crepe de chine Now...many decades later, in my 70's, I feel blessed to have the perspective that only comes with age. But also with age comes aging skin and with aging skin comes wrinkles. Each line on my face has a story to tell so why would I want to erase them with Botex or a Facelift? Rather I reflect on how I earned them. As Socrates said, "An unexamined life is not worth living." 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1487534086921-4NDGUVMOJ8GJKBM0MXTN/Hope+in+a+Jar.jpg If it Wrinkles - Hope in a Jar 46 x 48 x 6 Totems of skin care products donated by friends and family, glue, plexiglass base, fiberglass tube "American women spend $27,638,000 on skin care products a year...but are not very happy." 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1510250314419-46V92C93BGXF7EQN0J2C/Connect+the+dots+.jpg If it Wrinkles - Connect the Dots 41 x 64 Hand embroidery on organza with cotton silhouette. The story is hidden in the invisible lines that connect my age spots. 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1456960181699-7PGEUMF6HYLB8TSDZ28H/%252273+Year+Old+Grandma+looks+35%2522+%28results+vary%29.jpg If it Wrinkles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1456962624975-CT2B7MVATGI9IQH2YZ3O/%252273+Year+Old+Grandma+looks+35%2522+%28results+vary%29.jpg If it Wrinkles http://www.rozritter.com/the-more-things-change daily 1.0 2015-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1446405243611-L790SW1CPP5JEQYSP3MY/The+More+Things+Change.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1446405243611-L790SW1CPP5JEQYSP3MY/The+More+Things+Change.jpg Home http://www.rozritter.com/past-is-the-past daily 0.75 2022-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1472500183966-7ORL8TPMFA5OS85RX6VV/2.RitterRoz_Lew+the+Clothesman.jpg The Past is the Past https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1472501028648-C6S3VHT08752YX20FM7E/3a.Ritter.Roz_Love+Letters.jpg The Past is the Past https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1472501462586-YKDBLFXFJTJT6GPZXRIY/4.RitterRoz_Upwardly+Mobile.jpg The Past is the Past https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1410045162500-5UCC86F3FK4CD6IB84OR/roz-ritter-following-the-thread-1.jpg The Past is the Past - Following the Thread A non-traditional embroidery sampler of ideas with text, drawings and photos. 38 x 22 x 6 Vintage men’s dress shirt, embroidery, applique, photo transfer 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1644010871898-PTZLTQ6JJR2CNF9KDEAF/1.+Roz+Ritter_Migrants.jpg The Past is the Past - Migrants Migrants 40 x 32 Hand embroidery, vintage jewish prayer shawl (Tallis), photo transfer 2020 My paternal grandparents, fleeing the pogroms, emigrated between 1884-1888 from Hummene, a small village in Austria-Hungary. I hand embroidered, on a vintage Jewish prayer shawl (a Tallis) their journey across Poland and Germany to Rotterdam, where they boarded the ship Dania to NYC through Ellis Island. In 1955 my family settled in California. Migrants reads from right to left like a Hebrew prayer book. The outlined photo is from my father’s Bar Mitzvah, c.1915, and the chicken soup recipe was handed down in my family from my great-grandmother. Between the blue stripes on each end, I embroidered my family’s history with each of our Hebrew names. We were the lucky ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1556132890506-53BPQ5NI0HYRYVKHRM8M/_DSC6334+copy.jpeg The Past is the Past - c. 1949 Size variable Hand Embroidery, photo transfer from c. 1949 Brownie Handbook, wooden embroidery hoops 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1595962275165-Z6CFZESD3R6FYYNUE098/_DSC2768.jpg The Past is the Past http://www.rozritter.com/abstracts-1 daily 0.75 2018-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1510851467316-VEFTPXZTEPRMJSWSN68K/_DSC7032+copy.jpg Ode to Roy - Ode to Roy Hand Embroidery on linen 22" x 32" Inspired by a Roy Deforest painting. After i began working on this piece my beloved 8 year old granddaughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Mindful stitching Ode to Roy helped keep me sane during this challenging time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1510851467316-VEFTPXZTEPRMJSWSN68K/_DSC7032+copy.jpg Ode to Roy - Ode to Roy Hand Embroidery on linen 22" x 32" Inspired by a Roy Deforest painting. After i began working on this piece my beloved 8 year old granddaughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Mindful stitching Ode to Roy helped keep me sane during this challenging time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1518454817605-1RF9GF68ZUOC3QJZ0OCZ/_DSC7032+copy.jpg Ode to Roy - Ode to Roy Hand embroidery on linen fabric 22 x 32 x 3 Inspired by Roy DeForest. I began working on this piece just before my beloved 8 year old granddaughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Stitching this piece helped keep me sane during this challenging time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1513617576917-IFWXJH1WYIOF8F47TOZE/_DSC7032+copy.jpg Ode to Roy - Ode to Roy Hand embroidery on linen fabric 22 x 32 x 3 Inspired by Roy DeForest. I began working on this piece just before my beloved 8 year old granddaughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Stitching this piece helped keep me sane during this challenging time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1513618074354-3DY8IRVO6I5A3EGKQHAW/_DSC7032+copy.jpg Ode to Roy - Ode to Roy Hand embroidery on linen fabric 22 x 32 x 3 Inspired by Roy DeForest. I began working on this piece just before my beloved 8 year old granddaughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Stitching this piece helped keep me sane during this challenging time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1513617795498-BS9PRJNDI4W1QCE1LDE7/_DSC7034+copy.jpg Ode to Roy - Ode to Roy_detail http://www.rozritter.com/abstracts-3 daily 0.75 2018-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1510850397155-APCG91GTHU01DZ8QH8HU/Ode+to+Roy.jpg Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1510850397155-APCG91GTHU01DZ8QH8HU/Ode+to+Roy.jpg Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1510850519523-YR2Z6GRAKKSURJVPB1F2/_DSC7032+copy.jpg Abstracts - Ode to Roy Hand embroidered on linen fabric 22" x 32" Inspired by a Roy DeForest painting. After I began working on this piece my beloved 8 year old granddaughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. The meditation of stitching Ode to Roy helped keep me sane during this challenging time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1510850738706-M5A5EI8D6KA5AH0WHSUG/_DSC7034+copy.jpg Abstracts - Ode to Roy_detail http://www.rozritter.com/abstracts-2 daily 0.75 2018-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1510851160467-VFGSTW4D4I13PLNIVQWL/_DSC7034+copy.jpg Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1510851160467-VFGSTW4D4I13PLNIVQWL/_DSC7034+copy.jpg Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1520698356335-YK33RACVT0DPZ4CLGN28/Ode+to+Friedenstreich+%231_detail+1.jpg Abstracts http://www.rozritter.com/abstracts daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1518457137878-B0RIIVDD9UYOG1NT9Z3G/_DSC7034.jpg Meditations for troubled times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1534711012601-M8Z29QOZFFT7FQU6CCPS/Ode+to+Friedenscreich+%232_detail.jpg Meditations for troubled times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1539983051414-J2YCAQSB69GQP8UORPMR/Fragments.jpg Meditations for troubled times - Fragments 38 x 38 Hand embroidery on Kozo paper 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1518456212016-1DCT109IHQX0F4ITVBFF/_DSC7034.jpg Meditations for troubled times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1520969959209-QQHDJ3SFNA8L1EJMDIOB/Ode+to+Friedenstreich+%231_detail+1.jpg Meditations for troubled times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1751052847019-TB02618OOFY9U14UAH2B/_DSC9760.jpg Meditations for troubled times - The Musketeers 30 × 40 Hand embroidery, collage, up cycled linen The Musketeers were created with up cycled linen given to me when a local bedding company was going out of business. The images took form spontaneously as I was doodling. Where these animal designs came from in my head...I do not know however, I had so much fun creating each of them as each took on a life of its own. I collaged the cut out up cycled linen and when the "animal"was complete, I hand embroidered each one. 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1709764412615-CUJZU8N2DKJ44KW490W5/I%27ll+String+Along+with+You.jpg Meditations for troubled times - Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered 25 × 65 Collage, hand embroidery, up-cycled linen Inspired by women artists from 1930’s-1950’s 2024 http://www.rozritter.com/abstracts-1-1 daily 0.75 2018-02-12 http://www.rozritter.com/ode-to-roy-1 daily 0.75 2018-02-12 http://www.rozritter.com/thread-drawings daily 0.75 2025-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1604871181861-MURXK0IF3IAZNHSH6XBG/Lovers+copy.jpg Thread Drawings - Lover 40 x 16 x 2 Hand embroidery on linen , photo transfer, images of the artist (1980’s) 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1614631029757-SIA5AF8SYD6NJ7YCP1XO/_DSC8473.jpg Thread Drawings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1629396680501-9ZHNB3AV49WUBSG9DQTI/The+Foggy+Years-full+view.jpg Thread Drawings - The Foggy Years 30 x 24 Hand embroidery on linen Thread drawing pieced together from a collection of drawings taken out of my 1980’s journals…when I lived on a marijuana farm in the the Santa Cruz Mountains. 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1661126289517-P6UZO09NX1470MBFVHZB/Journey+on+a+Sugar_Series+One.jpg Thread Drawings - Journey on a Sugar Cube_Series One 30 x 30 Hand embroidery, photo transfer, drawings from artist’s 1970’s journals. 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1661126563319-G76BC1EQHFX5DEI0JVSO/Journey+on+a+Sugar+Cube_Series+two.jpg Thread Drawings - Journey on a Sugar Cube_Series Two 30 x 30 Hand embroidery, photo transfer, drawings from artist’s 1970’s journals 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1661127032825-7PBEF4M503WFXJKOBNN4/_DSC8929.jpg Thread Drawings - Journey on a Sugar Cube_Series Three 30 x 30 Hand embroidery, photo transfer, drawings from artist’s 1970’s journals. 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1670283100901-S4HTTDZNTSXIZVY2YPBL/image-asset.jpeg Thread Drawings - Driving Through Time Driving Through Time 30 x 2423 x 28 Hand embroidery on linen Thread drawing pieced together from a collection of drawings taken out of my 1980’s journals…when I lived on a marijuana farm in the the Santa Cruz Mountains. 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1670283712595-DEZOU75S6F0W71CGFZV0/Radiating+Kindness+All+over+the+World.jpg Thread Drawings - Radiating Kindness over the World 20 x 24 Hand embroidery on linen 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1670284500673-4OST0J42C82HX1KQWPKD/Lady+Luck.jpg Thread Drawings - Lady Luck 20 x 24 Hand embroidery, photo transfer, drawing from artist’s 1970’s journals. 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1735764530009-F3AUA2G6ZHFISAB8Y6ZP/image-asset.jpeg Thread Drawings - Nana 15 × 18 Hand embroidery, photo transfer Hand embroidered from a photo taken in 2023 in the Carmel Valley, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1614632320411-UFTD1FCIL8Q62NLLXCG7/_DSC8466.jpg Thread Drawings - Mother 15 x 18 Hand embroidery, photo transfer 2023 Hand embroidered from a photo taking a walk with my 3 sons….Anthony 7, Jonathan 6 and Nicolas 3 in Portola Valley, California. !971…the year I separated from their father! http://www.rozritter.com/new-blog-avenue daily 0.75 2025-05-09 http://www.rozritter.com/new-blog-avenue/2012/6/11/anders-rorgren-gknyw monthly 0.5 2015-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4fd1028ee4b02be53c65dfb3/1377897059461-ASJZWX3QJC69TVE1EJ00/4bdd33725e5605ec6ae830b998597499.jpg Blog - Eastward http://www.rozritter.com/new-blog-avenue/2012/6/11/commodo-condimentum-7jhnz monthly 0.5 2012-06-11 http://www.rozritter.com/new-blog-avenue/2012/6/11/tellus-bibendum-tortor-ppk7e monthly 0.5 2012-06-11 http://www.rozritter.com/cover daily 0.75 2015-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1446403777808-AL281QCABPX85PWR4D6F/The+More+Things+Change.jpg Cover http://www.rozritter.com/curriculum-vita daily 0.75 2026-03-10 http://www.rozritter.com/about daily 0.75 2023-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1410122510960-RUWRW6Z87IZZQMOGYNIO/image-asset.png Artist Statement http://www.rozritter.com/lew-the-clothesman-interview daily 0.75 2014-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d67c76e4b03a8ade9bfed9/1410122781403-KWPPYAD1X14NDQ5VQYQC/roz-ritter-lew-the-clothesman-2.jpg Lew the Clothesman Interview Lew Ritter at his Bar Mitzvah. 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