Christina Rothe was born in Hamburg, Germany and raised from infancy in Lagos, Nigeria. After years of travel, studies and a short career working in the shipping industry, she finally allowed her life's true passion to unfold pursuing a career in fine art. Christina moved to the United States and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber.

She is predominantly known to paint with threads layering thousands of individual threads of various weights and colors one-at-a-time onto surfaces. Inspired by the African artist FAB her own technique of working with threads evolved over the years creating the illusion of an intricately textured woven cloth. Life experiences taught Rothe that there is no such thing that does not exist; Life is intricate, complex and fragile. Christina became a United States Citizen in 2016.

Upcoming Exhibits/Events 2020 - 2021   

June 11th,  2021   OneHeart Call Project and the performing arts, one night event at Gonzaga's Magnuson Theatre, Spokane Washington

May 7, 2021           OneHeart Call Project at The Kolva Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, Washington

October 2nd, 2020 - Awakening and the OneHeart Call Project_building community through the voices of our hearts through the arts at the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana, a multimedia and multicultural art outreach project

Launch of  the One Heart Call  website

June 5th  OneHeart Call Project and the performing arts, one night event at Gonzaga's Magnuson Theatre, Spokane Washington  

postponed due to Covid-19 virus

May 1st - The Kolva Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, Washington   

postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19 virus

April 3rd - Four- Group Exhibit - The Saranac Art Projects, Spokane, Washington  

postponed due to Covid-19 virus

Ongoing Exhibits/Permanent Art Installation

Thrivent Financial, Liberty Lake, Washington

Forza Coffee Company, Hamilton Location, Spokane, Washington

Meadowwood Technologoy Campus, Liberty Lake, Washington

Selected Exhibitions

2018

Rooted in Fiber, Pend d'Oreille Arts Council Invitational Fiber Art Exhibit at The Sandpoint Center, Sandpoint, Idaho

Community Benefit: Hearts for the Arts, Liberty Lake Community Theater, Liberty Lake, Washington

2017

The Art Spirit Gallery’s 20th Anniversary Exhibit, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

Marmot Art Space, Spokane, Washington

Community Benefit: Leadership Lights the Way Gala, Leadership Spokane, Washington

Community Benefit: Team Child, Jewett House in St. John’s Cathedral, Spokane, Washington

KSPS Public Television, Northwest Profiles, May 2017, Guiding Threads

2016

First Friday Spokane, William Grant Gallery, Spokane, Washington

Just the Bridge, William Grant Gallery, Spokane, Washington

Exquisite Woman, Little Dog Art Gallery, Spokane, Washington

Mixed Media, Little Dog Art Gallery, Spokane, Washington

Opening Show, Little Dog Art Gallery, Spokane, Washington

Community Benefit: Palouse Arts Councils’s 12th Annual Artists’ Showcase 2016, Palouse, Washington

Community Benefit: Team Child, Jewett House in St. John’s Cathedral, Spokane, Washington

The Artist Catalogue, Cover artist for the Spring edition 2016, Twelve featured emerging artists

2015

Craftsman Cellars, Spokane, Washington, December 2015 through February 2016

Embodied, Repertoire Art & Design Gallery, Missoula, Montana

Edges Soften, William Grant Gallery, Kendall Yards, Spokane, Washington

Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Artworks Northwest Exhibit, Roseburg, Oregon

Mixed Media Show, Repertoire Art & Design, Missoula, Montana

Women’s Works 2015, Woodstock, Illinois

Community Benefit: Team Child, Jewett House in St. John’s Cathedral, Spokane, Washington

2014 

Permanent Installation at Meadowwood Technologoy Campus, Liberty Lake, Washington
Free Flow, Dodson's, Spokane, Washington

Community Benefit: Team Child, Jewett House in St. John’s Cathedral, Spokane, Washington

2013 

Textile Art Show, Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, Postfalls, Idaho

2012 

Small Artworks Invitational, The Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 

William Grant Gallery, Spokane Washington 

The Works of Christina Rothe, Dodson's, Spokane, Washington 

Moxi, Spokane Arts Commission, Spokane, Washington

2011 

Italia Trattoria, Spokane Arts Commission, Spokane, Washington

2010 

Small Artworks Invitational, The Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur dʼAlene, Idaho

Performances

1993 

Of Bones And Of Edges-Living In-Inside Out-Turn-Outside-In, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

1992

3000 Eggs-Public No.1 Or Silence And Creation, Kansas City Art Institute, KansasCity, Missouri

300 Eggs-Public No.1, Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri 

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Cafe Javagaia, Body Painting for Hot Water Mermaids music band, Kansas City, Missouri

Arc to Microchip, by Dwight Frizell and Jay Mandeville, Radio Performance on K.C.U.R. 89.3, Kansas City, Missouri

1991

Silence, Dance Performance and Body Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

Public Art Display

Safeco Liberty Mutual Group, Liberty Lake, Washington 

Meadowwood Technologoy Campus, Liberty Lake, Washington 

Glen Dow Academy of Hair Design, Spokane, Washington

pʼFino Gourmet Market, Clarkston, Michigan 

URBANʼS Interior General Contractors, Northville, Michigan 

Reviews/Publications/TV 

KSPS Public Television, Northwest Profiles, May 2017, Guiding Thread

http://video.ksps.org/video/3001173778/

LaRue, Jennifer, The Threads that Bind, in: Spokane Coeur d’Alene Living, November 2012, page 176

Regalado-Hertel, Stephanie, Christina Rothe Fine Art, in: Woman Spokane Coeur d’Alene Living, Nov/Dec 2012, Vol 1 issue 6, page 9

Howes, Susan, Threads of experience, in: HOUR DETROIT, June 2001, page 54-55

Kansas City and Lawrence, A Survey of Exhibitions during SDAʼs Material Culture Conference, in: Surface Design Journal, Winter 1998, page 46-49

Alterations - Exploring Material and Memory, in: Fiberarts Magazine, Nov/Dec 1997, Vol. 24, No. 3, page 56-57

Kansas City Art Institute Catalogue, 1992 

K.C.A.I. View Book 1995-1997

Die Kunst der Koerperkunst, in: Maxi, Nov 11/1991 Schirmacher, Renate, Neugier und Leidenschaft, in: Hamburger Abendblatt, 7/91 Nr. 159, S.15 

10 Stunden, in: Hamburger Abendblatt, 7/91 Nr. 154, S. 14 Dogan, Kemal, Boeyle Boyacilik Dostlar Basina, in: Huerriyet, 7/24 

Halbrock, Rosmarie, Die Bauchbilder der Christina Rothe, in: Hamburger Kloenschnack 1991, Nr. 6, S.15

Education

2016 Tig Welding certified

2005 Associate Polarity Therapist, American Polarity Therapy Association, The Polarity Center, Dearborn, Michigan

1995 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, BFA