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Theresa Rose lives and works in her beloved hometown, Philadelphia, PA, as an artist, educator and arts organizer. Her passion for the city fuels the content of her studio and curatorial practice. Rose's mixed-media works on paper pay tribute to the complex beauty found in the urban environment. From elevating the status of a closed down public school to bringing into relief urban intimacies of sports fanatics and public pools, her watercolor and photo-collage works present a layered depiction of a city very much in transition. Her curatorial work equally uses the urban landscape as a site for play and social possibility. From testing the urban soil and offering free soup, (Futurefarmers' Soil Kitchen) to new forms of economy in the culturally dense 9th Street Market (Jon Rubin's 9th Street Stock Exchange), her projects continue to explore the possibilities of urban life.
Rose earned a BA in Art Education from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been part of exhibitions at Fleisher Art Memorial, Institute of Contemporary Art, The Print Center, Little Berlin, Crane Arts and Seraphin Gallery. She is the founder of Philly Stake (2011- 2016), a micro-granting dinner event that funded creative, community-engaged projects. In 2016, Rose curated a public art project with Jon Rubin in collaboration with the Mural Arts Program called the 9th Street Stock Exchange. Rose was formerly the Visual Arts Program Director at FringeArts and Public Art Project Manager for the City of Philadelphia. For several years, she was faculty in the Graduate Social Practice Program at Moore College of Art and Design. Currently, Rose is the Managing Director of RAIR, Recycled Artist in Residency, in Tacony, and serves on the Board of the Passyunk Square Civic Association.
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CONTACT INFO: theresa1rose@gmail.com