ROSE MCADOO is a visual artist and writer who creates ephemeral art experiences about place. Her unique edible art centers around human stories and the environment, leading her with remote populations in the world's most extreme environments. Following a New York culinary career, Rose has pushed her work into increasingly wild locations: cooking sweets in the desert with Kenya’s Maasai tribe, alongside Congolese porters on Virunga's volcano summit, on glaciers across Alaska, with scientists in Antarctica, underground in the Australian Outback, and behind bars at Los Angeles County State Prison and NYC's Rikers Correctional Facility. Calling both poles home, Rose splits her time between Alaska and Antarctica — where she currently manages NASA's Long Duration Balloon research camp on the Ross Ice Shelf and previously wintered as a member of the Antarctic Search and Rescue team. Over the summers, she works as an ice climbing and helicopter glacier guide in Alaska. Deep-field art residencies have led her to collect glacier data with the North Cascades Glacier Climate Project, decorate a four-tier cake at Denali Base Camp, and craft desserts about sea ice onboard the vessel Antigua with the Arctic Circle in Svalbard. Rose's work has won the attention of NPR, Forbes, Saveur, Edible Alaska, American Polar Society, and New York Magazine, among others. She was the cover artist for the Polar Times, a visiting lecturer for California State University Long Beach, and a gold medalist at the New York Cake Show. She's produced a solo in-person show as part of Seward Alaska's First Fridays and a solo VR show with the Climate Gallery. Rose welcomes collaborations, speaking engagements, museum installations, and custom work — exploring the limitless potential of desserts to share powerful stories. View her CV here. Say hello at crmcadoo@gmail.com. |