Photo by Gabriel Bunch
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ROSE MCADOO is a visual artist using cake to raise awareness around global issues. Her unique edible art centers around human stories and the environment, leading her to make cakes with remote populations in some of the world's most extreme environments.
Throughout her New York career at Nine Cakes, Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm, and Mast Brothers Chocolate, Rose's work was layered between journeys abroad: 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, 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 co-manages NASA's Long Duration Balloon atmospheric research camp 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, produce work at Denali Base Camp, and craft desserts about sea ice with the Arctic Circle in Svalbard 2024. Rose's work has won the attention of NPR, Forbes, Saveur, Food Network, Heritage Radio, American Geophysical Union, California Arts Council, American Polar Society, Justice Arts Coalition, Art21, the New Museum, the Mystic Seaport Museum, and New York Magazine. She was the cover artist for the Polar Times, a keynote speaker for NYC World Refugee Days, 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 art 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 |
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