âLay Your Burden Down is a communal act of care that allowed participants to experience respite, feel support in carrying on, and, in the case of my sewing circle partners, provide comfort and sympathy." â Carina del Rosario
Lay Your Burden Down is an installation created by artist Carina del Rosario, recipient of the 2025 Constance W. Rice Fellowship. This original piece, comissioned by the museum, is on view at the Seattle Asian Art Museum from November, 2025 through April, 2026. It is a communal act of careâa community-based project that invited people to share their burdens, convened sewing circles to tend and bolster those burdens, and then turned the embroidered pieces into pillows which are on display on a luxurious hammock.
Carina del Rosario has exhibited work in galleries and museums and as public installations in Washington and Arizona. Her work is in the collections of King Countyâs 4Culture and the cities of Seattle and Kent and has been supported with grants and scholarships from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, the Puffin Foundation, the Barbara Jean Brown Foundation, and Grace Church in Seattle.