Cecilia Blomberg was born in 1950 in Kimstad, Sweden. She grew up in Sundsvall and moved to Stockholm in 1970 where she attended the National College of Art, Craft and Design (Konstfack) and received her MFA in 1976. Though she specializes in tapestry, she has also worked as a muralist and a graphics illustrator. Since 1977 she has worked in the United States, producing tapestries for public and private collections, and commissioned works for hospitals, banks and for the headquarters of the Bonneville Power Administration in Portland, Oregon. She recently finished and installed a major piece for the new Washington State University campus in Vancouver. Ms. Blomberg's tapestries have appeared in numerous national and international exhibitions and her work is represented in Contemporary Textile Art - Scandinavia, The State of the Arts, The State of the Crafts, Fiberarts Design Book I, IV , V and VI, World Tapestry Today, and a number of magazines. She lives with her husband in Gig Harbor, Washington.