Rose Marasco (born December 25, 1948), is an American

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. She is considered to be "perhaps Maine’s most prolific photographer,” living and working there since 1979.

Early life and education

Rose Marasco grew up in

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. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography at Syracuse University in 1971, an M.A. from Goddard College in 1981, and her Master of Fine Arts at the

Visual Studies Workshop Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) is a non-profit group dedicated to art education based in Rochester, New York, in the Neighborhood of the Arts. VSW supports makers and interpreters of images through education, publications, exhibitions, and collect ...

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. where she studied under

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and Joan Lyons.

Teaching career

After leaving VSW, Marasco "initiated the photography program at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY, establishing the curriculum, darkrooms, & studios, and teaching both black & white and color" from 1974 to 1979. Marasco moved to Maine in 1979 for a position at the

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, where she taught photography for 35 years, retiring as Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 2014.

Artistic career

Marasco has been an exhibited artist since 1971 with twenty-three solo shows and more than sixty group shows. Marasco’s photographs are included in public collections of distinction including at: The Fogg Museum at Harvard University; The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College; The New York Public Library Photography Collection; The Portland Museum of Art; and The Bowdoin College Museum of Art among others. She has lectured about her work at Harvard University, Parsons School of Design, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Bowdoin College, Maine College of Art, and many other institutions in the United States. In 2015 The Portland Museum of Art mounted a major retrospective, called ''index'', of Marasco's work, organized by PMA Chief Curator Jessica May. Describing her method in a review of the exhibition, critic John Yau wrote “It seems to me that Marasco deserves both a full-sized monograph and to be better known. She is more than Maine’s most prolific photographer.” In 2016 Marasco was awarded the Maine Women's Fund

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accessed: March 7, 2020. and in 2005, received the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from Santa Fe Center for Photography

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Selected solo exhibitions

*2018 "Rose Marasco: index" Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute School of Art *2015 “Rose Marasco: index” Portland Museum of Art *2015 “Patrons of Husbandry" Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine *2014 "New York City Pinhole Photographs" Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York *2010 "Projections" Houston Center for Photography *2008 "The Invented Photograph" Universite de Bretagne Occidentale,

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*2004 "Domestic Objects: Past and Presence" University of Southern Maine *2003 "Circles" Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York *2002 "Open House: Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat”, Portland Museum of Art *2000 “Leafing” Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York *1999 "Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange"

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, Bar Harbor, Maine *1998 “New England Diary” Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York *1996 "Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange" Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia *1995 "Tender Buttons: Women’s Domestic Objects" Davis Museum at Wellesley College,

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*1992 "Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange"

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*1982 “Rose Marasco: Photomontage” Portland School of Art *1980 “Rose Marasco: Photographs”

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Public collections

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* Bowdoin College Museum of Art * Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College *

, Rockland, Maine *

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Corporate Art Collection *

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*The Maine Historic Preservation Commission], Augusta, Maine *Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England, Portland, Maine * National Museum of American History * New York Public Library Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs *Photographic Resource Center, Artists’ Book Archive, Boston, Massachusetts *

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International Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts *

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Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island * Syracuse University, Newhouse Communications Center, Syracuse, New York *University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine * University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine *

, Rochester, New York

Teaching

*2016–present Artist Mentor, MFA Studio,

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*2014 Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Art, University of Southern Maine *2010–2014 Distinguished Professor, Department of Art, University of Southern Maine *2000–2010 Professor, Department of Art, University of Southern Maine *2007–present Artist Mentor, MFA Studio, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Massachusetts *1981–1987 Instructor, Portland School of Art (now

Maine College of Art Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D) is a private art school in Portland, Maine. Founded in 1882, Maine College of Art & Design is the oldest arts educational institution in Maine. Roughly 32% of MECA&D students are from Maine. The college is a ...

) *1981

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, Waterville, Maine *1974–1979 Instructor & Founding Head of Photography,

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (MWPAI) is a regional fine arts center founded in 1919 and located in Utica, New York. The institute has three program divisions: *Museum of art *Performing arts *School of art Museum of art The museum o ...

, Utica, NY

Books

Covers

“Camouflage” by Murray Bail (2001) Farrar, Straus and Giroux “Latest Will: New & Selected Poems” by

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(2002) W.W. Norton & Company “Confessions” by Kang Zhengguo (2007) W.W. Norton & Company “Mouth Wide Open” by John Thorne (2007) North Point Press

Work included in

“Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews” by Frank Gohlke (2009) Hol Art Books “Portland Through the Lens” (2007) warren machine company “Undomesticated Interiors” (2003) essays by April Gallant and Mimi Hellman,

Smith College Museum of Art The Smith College Museum of Art (abbreviated SCMA), is an art museum in Northampton, Massachusetts connected with Smith College. The museum is known for its compilation of American and European art of the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by ...

“Designing Identity” (2000) Marc English Rockport Publishers “The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society” by Lucy R. Lippard (1997) The New Press “Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange” essay by Frank Gohlke Amazon Books “Selections 4: Polaroid International Exhibition” (1988) essay by Mark Haworth-Booth

Select Critical Reviews

Julien Langevin,
Plastic Expressions in Particularity: Nature Moves in Tracy McKenna’s Shift at Able Baker Contemporary
" ArtSpiel, November 21, 2019. John Yau, �
Photographs That Write With Light
” ''Hyperallergic'', November 16, 2019. Daniel Kany, �
Both smoke AND mirrors: Photography of Rose Marasco
” ''Portland Press Herald'', May 31, 2015. Mark Feeney, �

" ''Boston Globe'', May 28, 2015. Bob Keyes, �
In a summer of art, a Rose blooms
” ''Portland Press Herald'', May 25, 2015.

External links

Photographer’s website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marasco, Rose 1948 births Living people American women photographers University of Southern Maine faculty People from Utica, New York Syracuse University alumni Artists from Maine Photographers from Maine Photographers from New York (state) Visual Studies Workshop alumni American women academics 21st-century American women