I am available as a visiting artist. I am an experienced teacher of photography, design, and the senior seminar (all disciplines) at the college level. I am currently a tenured Professor in the Art Department at The University of Southern Maine. In 2005, I received the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award, from Santa Fe Center for Photography.

I have been a visiting artist at the following schools and universities:

Bates College
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Center for Photography at Woodstock
Colby College
Colgate University
The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College
“ Light Conversations” at Fogg Museum
Harvard University Art Department
Maine College of Art
Maine Photographic Workshop
Massachusetts College of Art
Munson Williams Proctor Institute
Mytilene Photography Society
Parsons School of Design
Payson Gallery of Art
Port Washington Public Library
Portland Museum of Art
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
University of Massachusetts / Dartmouth
University of New England


Deborah Martin Kao, curator Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University & organizer of the invitational “Light Conversations: Seminars with Contemporary Photographers”–
“ Ms. Marasco’s engaging lecture kept spellbound our audience of students, professors, conservators, and collectors. Possessing a natural gift for teaching, Ms. Marasco seeks to connect with others through her images and her words. Willing to lay bare the personal and complex issues and ideas that form the center of her creative process, she allows intellectual space for her audience to come to her work on their own terms—to meet her half way as it were.”

Fawn Potash, Center for Photography at Woodstock–
“ Your gentle way with the students reached their hearts and opened up their creative selves to get out of the back seat with their work.”

Vincent Cianni, photographer & faculty member at Parsons School of Design, NYC–
“ Rose conducted a guest critique in The Senior Seminar class of the Photography Department at Parsons School of Design. The response from students was extremely positive, with many stating that it was a very constructive and insightful critique. Ms. Marasco was able to establish a fast and comfortable rapport with each student. She articulated the strengths and weaknesses of the work in a very personable and individual manner, adapting the focus of her questions and comments to the specific images and needs of the student. Her approach was thoughtful and respectful and she drew upon a vast knowledge of contemporary and historic photographic references as well as those of other disciplines. Ms Marasco was successful in conducting a critique which stimulated the students to think, search, and experiment.

Rose Marasco also presented a lecture of her work in the evening which was open to the photography department at large. The combination of critique and lecture gave those students in the Senior Seminar class a chance to correlate Ms Marasco’s photographic theory and ideas with the visual manifestation of such, providing a very informative, enlightening, and significant experience.”