ROSE MARASCO
info@rosemarasco.com
207 -780-1965

education: M.F.A. Visual Studies Workshop, SUNY Buffalo . B.F.A. Syracuse University
current position: Professor of Art . University of Southern Maine


EXHIBITIONS / SELECTED SOLO

Upcoming: 2008 Projections, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France and travels thru 2009

2004 Domestic Objects:Past and Presence, University Southern Maine Art Gallery, Gorham, Maine and travels thru 2005

2003 Circles, Sarah Morthland Gallery, NYC

2002 Open House: Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

2000 Leafing, Sarah Morthand Gallery, NYC

1998 New England Diary, Sarah Morthand Gallery, NYC

1995 Tender Buttons: Women's Domestic Objects, Davis Museum and Cultural Center,
Wellesley College, Massachusetts

1992-93 Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland,
Maine and traveled 5 venues + Latvia Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia, 1996

1989 Religious Imagery, in “Perspectives,” Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

1988 Recent Color Photographs, Munson Williams Proctor Institute School of Art
Gallery, Utica, New York

EXHIBITIONS / SELECTED GROUP

2006, Maine The Way Life Is, Portland Museum of Art, Susan Daly, curator, Portland, Maine

2005 The Long View: Selections from the Norma B. Marin Collection, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine

2005 Recent Acquisitions, University of New England

2003 Photographing Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Aprile Gallant, curator

2003 Taking Pictures, Icon Gallery of Contemporary Art, Brunswick, Maine

2002 Past–Present-–Future: 50th Anniversary exhibit, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,
Rockport, Maine, Bruce Brown, curator

2001 Domestic Culture, ICA/Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Mark H.C. Bessire, curator

2000 Local Color: Six Contemporary Photographers, Portland Museum of Art,
Portland, Maine, Aprile Gallant, curator

2000 Rose Marasco & Linn Underhill, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, New York,
Mary Murray, curator

1998 Still Lifes / Prints & Photographs, Marlborough Gallery, NYC

1998 Memorable Histories and Historic Memories, Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
Brunswick, Maine, Alison Ferris, curator

1992 Exhibition of Photography, Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts, John Szarkowski, juror

1991 To Support, To Acknowledge, To Promote, Maine Arts Commission and New England
Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Recipients, Baxter Gallery, Portland Maine

1988-89 Selections 4 - Photokina ’88, Cologne, Germany; Polaroid International Exhibition
traveled throughout Europe, Mark Hayworth Booth, juror

CRITICAL RESPONSE / SELECTED NATIONAL

Dear Print Fan: A Festchrift for Marjorie B. Cohen, essay by Deborah Martin Kao,
“ Not Unordered: Rose Marasco’s Tender Buttons”, Harvard University Art Museums, 2001

New York, March 2, 1998, extended text and photo “Art Listings”

The New Yorker, “Goings On About Town”. Feb. 23, 1998, extended text

The New York Times, Exhibit review “New England Diary” by Margarett Loke. February 20, 1998

The Village Voice, Exhibit review “New England Diary” by Vince Aletti. February 4 -10, 1998

The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. by Lucy R. Lippard
1997: The New Press, New York, New York

Viscomm '96, Slide presentation by Julia Van Haaften, photography curator, New York
Public Library. Jacob Javits Center, NYC.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Endpaper”, May 26, 1995, extended text and image

The Boston Sunday Globe, Exhibiti review by Christine Temin May 14, 1995

CRITICAL RESPONSE / SELECTED REGIONAL

Art New England, featured artist/interview by Lauren Fensterstock, Dec./Jan.2005-06

The Portland Phoenix, “A Colored Place” cover story, exhibition review, and symposium preview by Chris Thompson, February 6, 2004

Maine Sunday Telegram, “ Photographer Evokes Complexity from Everyday” cover story and interview by Bob Keyes, February 1, 2004

Maine Sunday Telegram, “Local Color” Exhibition review by Philip Isaacson. April 2, 2001

Maine Times, “Outside Art” review by Carl Little January 4, 2001

New York Resident, "West Side Story" review by Chris MacLeod. November 6, 2000

Antique and The Arts Weekly, Exhibition review “Leafing” NYC, November 3, 2000

Maine Times, “One Really Big Show” by Edgar Allen Beem, August 17, 2000

Art New England, “Memorable Histories and Historic Memories” review by Kim Grant
February/March 1999

Arts 4 All Newsletter, “ The Year that was Marching Towards the Millennium” review by Theresa Schwartz, Vol. I Issue 4, August 16, 1999

Maine Sunday Telegram, “Ritual and Community” review by Greg Gadberry. March 1, 1992

Views: The Journal of Photography in New England. “Ritual and Community”
review by Donna Cassidy. Vol. 13-4/14-1, Winter1993

EXHIBITION CATALOGS / SELECTED

2004 Domestic Objects: Past and Presence, University of Southern Maine, full-scale catalogue with introductory essay by Kim Grant, art historian and poem by Charles Simic

2003 Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, essays by Aprile Gallent and Mimi Hellman

2002 Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat, “Open House”, Portland Museum of Art & Maine Women Writers Collection, Portland, Four color reproductions and essay by the artist

2001 Local Color: Six Contemporary Photographers, Portland Museum of Art,
Portland, Maine. Essay by Aprile Gallant, curator

2000 Photographing Maine: 1840-2000, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine.
Essays by Bruce Brown, curator, and John Chandler, curator

1998 Memorable Histories And Historic Memories, Bowdoin College Museum of
Art, Brunswick, Maine. Essays by Alison Ferris, curator, and Johanna Drucker, historian

1995 Tender Buttons: Women's Domestic Objects, Davis Museum and Cultural
Center, Wellesley College, Essay by Lucy Flint-Gohlke, curator

1992 Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange Farnsworth Museum, Rockland,
Maine. Introduction by Frank Gohlke, photographer; essay by Elspeth Brown, historian

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Bowdoin College Museum of Art
The Farnsworth Museum of Art
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University
The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College
The International Polaroid Collection
The Library of Congress, Maine Grange, selected for acquisition
The New York Public Library Photography Collection
The Portland Museum of Art
The Visual Studies Workshop
University of New England & the Maine Women Writers Collection at UNE
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
Smithsonian National Museum of American History

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS / SELECTED

2006 Project Maine/France Grant – University of Maine system-wide grant to establish exchange programs for faculty and students with 4 French art schools/universities

2006, Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission

2005 Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award – Santa Fe Center for Photography

Fannie E. Gray Educulture Fund, University of Southern Maine, for exhibition, catalogue and symposium with Kim Grant, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Charles Simic, 2003-04

Research Grant, University of New England, Maine Women Writers Collection, 2001

Ministry of the Aegean Islands, Travel & Photography Grant, 1997

Artist Fellowship, Women's Studio Workshop, 1994

Maine Humanities Council, Major Grant - Project Director & Photographer; Ritual and
Community: The Maine Grange traveling exhibition & symposia, 1991-93

New England Historical Association, Exhibition of The Year Award, 1992

Maine Arts Commission: Percent for Art Grant, 1983 & Artists Fellowship, 1990

Polaroid Corporation Materials Grant, 1986

MacDowell Colony Residency Fellowship, 1985

LECTURES / VISITING ARTIST

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

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