Background
Ramona Lorraine Solberg was born 10 May 1921, in Watertown, South Dakota, but her family relocated to Seattle, Washington before Solberg"s second birthday.
Ramona Lorraine Solberg was born 10 May 1921, in Watertown, South Dakota, but her family relocated to Seattle, Washington before Solberg"s second birthday.
Using her G.I. Bill benefits, she went to Morelia and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and studied jewelry making and weaving at several universities. Returning to the United States, she completed a bachelor"s and master"s degree at the University of Washington and studied with Ruth Pennington.
She was an art instructor in and around Seattle for 3 decades as well as a prolific jewelry artist. She enlisted in the Women's Army Corps in 1943 during the Second World War and served until 1950. Then she went to Norway and worked with enameling.
From that time until her 1983 retirement, Solberg was an art professor at the University of Washington.
