Rosye was born in Borneo, a descendant of headhunters!  She is a great great great granddaughter of Damang Temanggung Runggu, the Head of Dayak Ngaju Tribe in Central Borneo. She has a background in civil engineering and international business and worked in Australia for several years before coming to the USA.  She is a mother of a Purple Heart award recipient for his service in Afghanistan as a Fleet Marine Corps Hospitalman in 2008. 

All her life, Rosye has been an artist with boundless creativity and enthusiasm, expressing herself wholeheartedly in a variety of mediums. She sang from a very young age and won several radio and television contests in Indonesia.  She currently sings with her husband in The Ambassadors, a barbershop quartet, http://aquartet.net/.

Other mediums have included piano, church organ, Javanese gamelan and kolintang, ninjitsu, designing and making dresses, cooking (no recipes, please) and carpentry.  She recently finished a complete remodel of every room in her home, doing most of the design and work herself, including hardwood floors, elaborate moldings, electrical, and plumbing. 

For the last few years, Rosye has thrown herself into oil and acrylic painting.  As in everything else, she is developing a style all her own.  Her current exhibit at the Kennedy Art Gallery holds a variety of colorful flowers, a series of musical instruments with sensual and melodious browns.  Next to come are images of Indonesian screen puppets with dark backgrounds and meticulous details in rich gold, greens, and reds.