Wilhelmina Rose is an 8th generation West Virginian and a 2nd generation artist. She was born and raised in the crooks of the Appalachian mountains and has been surrounded by artistry her entire life. Her mother, a poet, and her father, a painter, guided much of her artistic education until she spread her own wings after high school. She found herself traveling all over the world to discover the many different forms of creativity that lay within her. Her travels took her to performing in Slovakia, Czech Republic, and New York City. She also directed and performed in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands alongside the tortoises and finches. After a stint in Chicago while working with Second City Improv she was accepted to Dell’Arte International in Blue Lake California where she studied traditional physical theatre, acrobatics, and clowning. This endeavor ignited a new interest that led her to living in Italy studying further in the physical arts. Before the events of 2020, she was due to attend L.I.P.A to get her Masters and begin a European Ensemble tour with the school. However, the world events led her back home within the mountains. Here she has found the reignition of her childhood within the pigment on her brushes. Painting was always her fathers realm, but since his passing, this has now become the deepest connection that Wilhelmina has found to who he was. More so, she can now discover her own voice in what her entire artistic family has taught her. Things seem to come full circle often, and the world has a mysterious way of bringing you to the precipice of exactly where you need to be. As Richard Bach says, “You are never given a dream without the ability to make it come true, you may have to work for it however.”