About Angela Rose
“Recently, I’ve been drawing with sumi-e ink on postcard-size paper as part of a drawings and sentences series with a writer from Massachusetts. I also create one-of-a-kind jewelry with a focus on sustainability and slow fashion, using up-cycled, industrial gauge, aluminum wire.”
Some Career Highlights
- Collaborated on both permanent and ephemeral public art commissions since the 1990’s in Tucson, AZ, beginning with the Santa Cruz River Park project and culminating in Ador(n)ation at La Encantada Fashion Plaza.
- Earned a B.A. in Studio Art from Smith College 2002, emphasis on Sculpture in an Outdoor Setting. Studied abroad in Cordoba, Spain. Travelled extensively throughout, Spain, Italy and France during the early to mid 2000’s.
- Boston and Cape Cod, Massachusetts from 2011 – 2015, created public and private commissions, including Redlineselfie, a large-scale installation at the entry garden of Cape Cod Museum of Art. This project was featured in Cape Cod Magazine adding my name as “One of Top Ten People to Watch.” Another sculpture, The Garden Gate, is part of the permanent public art collection in Dennis, Massachusetts.
- A residency at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, led to public performances for peace in Siena, Italy, for equality at the Women’s March, Washington, D.C. and for body positivity, in Tucson, Arizona.
- Born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Rose moved to the Arizona/Mexican border town of Nogales, Arizona when she was 12 and then onto Madison, Connecticut at 16. A self-described nomad, she makes a yearly sojourn between the ocean of Cape Cod and the desert of Tucson, paying close attention to aspects of nature and humanity, in these two extremes.