Rose Marasco

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.

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 Sarah Orne Jewett Award, given to "a Maine woman who exhibits the attributes of the women in Jewett’s works of fiction: true grit, independence, courage, humor and discipline," and in 2005, received the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from Santa Fe Center for Photography New Mexico.

Daniel Kany, “Both smoke AND mirrors: Photography of Rose Marasco.” Portland Press Herald, May 31, 2015.

Mark Feeney, “In Portland, a survey of Rose Marasco’s photographs." Boston Globe, May 28, 2015.

Bob Keyes, “In a summer of art, a Rose blooms.” Portland Press Herald, May 25, 2015.

“Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews” by Frank Gohlke (2009) Hol Art Books

“Confessions” by Kang Zhengguo (2007) W.W. Norton & Company

“Mouth Wide Open” by John Thorne (2007) North Point Press

“Portland Through the Lens” (2007) warren machine company

“Undomesticated Interiors” (2003) essays by April Gallant and Mimi Hellman, Smith College Museum of Art

“Latest Will: New & Selected Poems” by Lenore Marshall (2002) W.W. Norton & Company

“Camouflage” by Murray Bail (2001) Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“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

“Selections 4: Polaroid International Exhibition” (1988) essay by Mark Haworth-Booth

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

Rose Marasco grew up in Utica, New York. 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 in Rochester. where she studied under Nathan Lyons and Joan Lyons.

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.

Rose Marasco (born December 25, 1948), is an American photographer. She is considered to be "perhaps Maine’s most prolific photographer,” living and working there since 1979.