Rousseau-Vermette was born in
Trois-Pistoles, Quebec and studied art in the late 1940s at the l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Quebec, with
Dorothy Liebes in San Francisco, at the
California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and privately throughout Europe and Asia. She created tapestries that experimented with scale, form, material and color, that became known as tapestry-paintings. In addition to appearing in numerous solo and group exhibitions, she became internationally recognized when she received several prestigious commissions, including the curtain for the Eisenhower Theatre in Washington's
Kennedy Center, and the ceiling of
Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. Some of her estimated 600 signed works are held in the
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the
National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and
Rockefeller Center in New York, and the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto. She was head of the Fibre program at
The Banff Centre from 1979 to 1985. Rousseau-Vermette was married to the artist
Claude Vermette. She died in Montreal in 2006. == Awards ==