S H O W S   /   E X H I B I T S

2025      Seattle, Washington: Group show featuring glacier science art curated by Jill Pelto (upcoming)
2024      Polar Artists Collective: Virtual group show featuring polar art curated by Sarah Barnard
2023      McCarthy, Alaska: "Jökulhlaup: Biting into Wrangell St. Elias National Park's Annual Glacier Outburst Flood"
2023      Seward First Friday Art Walk: "Eating Science at Denali Base Camp"
2022      Climate Gallery: "A Study of Artivism" (shown again in 2023 in collaboration with SF Design Week)


A R T I S T   R E S I D E N C I E S

2024      Arctic Circle: Svalbard (3 weeks aboard a tall ship sailing through the high Arctic)
2023      Creative Approach: Denali Base Camp  (12 days in the remote backcountry)
2021      North Cascades Glacier Climate Project  (10 day backcountry field season)


P U B L I S H E D   W R I T I N G

2024        Trails Mag: "A Creative Tie" 
23-24      Edible Alaska: year-long series of four feature-length articles to communicate glaciology through desserts
​                    - Summer 2024: "All It's Cracked Up to Be: Crunching into Crevasses" 
                    - Spring 2024: "Watermelon Snow: Exploring Algae's Culinary Intersections"
                    - Winter 2023: "Glacier Confectionary: An Edible Tribute to the Mysterious Ice Worm"
                    - Fall 2023: "Glacier Mice Bites: Biology and Dessert on the Matanuska Glacier"
2021        American Polar Society: Featured Artist (PDF available upon request)
2021        Studio ATAO: "Art in Prison: Incarcerated People Deserve Space to Be Creative"
2021        Artists + Climate Change: "We Become The Place: Making Climate Change Digestible" 
2019        Photographer Academy: "Shifting the Focus of Antarctic Photographer Kira Morris" 


F E A T U R E S

​2024        New York Times T Style Magazine (upcoming)
​2024        The Weather Channel (upcoming)
2024        Food Digest (upcoming)
2024        Grist: The #Grist50 "50 Climate Leaders to Watch This Year"
2024        Design Milk: "Climate Change Science Through Cakes"
2024        Climax Zine: "Des Glaciers au Glaçage"
2023        Pale Blue Tart: "The Pastry Chef Making Desserts on Top of Glaciers"
2023        Root Kitchens: "Eating at the Ends of the Earth"
2023        Mold Magazine: "Cakes for Climate Change"
2022        Food Design Nation: "Perspectives on Food Design from artist Rose McAdoo"
2022        Root Newsletter: "Unplated: An Interview with Rose McAdoo"
2021        Bloomberg News: "The Most Delicious (and Best Looking!) Holiday Cookies for 2021" 
2021        Studio ATAO: "Arts to Promote Healing in Prison" (author)
2021        American Geophysical Union: "Antarctic Log: Edible (kind of) Spiders"
2020        Saveur Magazine: "Saveur's Top 100"
2019        NPR:  "Antarctic Research Takes the Cake in these Science-Inspired Confections"  
2019        Forbes:  "Have Your Science and Eat It: Scientific Research as Cakes"  
2019        The Antarctic Sun: "50 Years of Women in Antarctica"
2019        King Arthur Flour Sift Magazine: "Bake It Better: Making Real Change Through Baking"
2019        New York Magazine: "Farm to Table Wedding Cakes"
2018        Brit + Co: "This Wes Anderson Themed Wedding Shoot Will Inspire Hip Brides Everywhere"
2018        New York Magazine: "Delicate and Decadent Wedding Cakes"
2018        New York Magazine: "Perfectly Imperfect Wedding Cakes"
2017        Food Network Magazine: "9 Things Your Baker Wishes You Knew"


P U B L I C    S P E A K I N G   //   T E A C H I N G

2024        REI:  "Edible Rocks" (stories from the Arctic with creative exercises and a backcountry culinary demo) 
2024        California State University, Long Beach: "Women in Art and Science" (2.5 hour class for MA & MFA students)
2023        Alaska Fox News: "Rose McAdoo Makes Science Desserts at Denali Base Camp"
2022        Climate Gallery: "Artist Talk"
2022        Palmer Station, Antarctica: "The History of Cake in Antarctica"
2021        Justice Arts Coalition: "Storytelling Through Cake in Carceral Facilities"
2020       Mystic Seaport Museum: "AntARTica: Baking and Decorating the Stories of Antarctic Science"
2020       McMurdo Station, Antarctica: "The History of Cake during Antarctica's Age of Exploration"
2019        Rikers Island Correctional Facility; facilitator: "Storytelling and Healing through Cake"
2019        Los Angeles County California State Prison; facilitator: "Storytelling and Healing through Cake"
2018        UNICEF at the United Nations; presenter: "The Role of Dessert in Raising Awareness About the Global Refugee Crisis"
2018        Pineapple NYC; panel member/live demo presentation: "Flour Power: Baking as Activism"
2018        Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm; pastry chef-in-residence: "Featuring Vegetables in the Final Course"
2018        Human Hands Album Release; installation chef and speaker: "Too Hot to Sleep"
2018        Centre for Social Innovation + Conversate; facilitator: "Networking for Introverts"
2017        World Refugee Day; featured storyteller: "Closing the Loop: Rwanda as a Second Home"
2017        Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm; installation chef and speaker: "A Country of Immigrants"
2016        Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm: chef and speaker: "Country for Syria"
2016        Refugee + Immigrant Fund NYC: chef and speaker: "Farm to Film:  a media exploration of asylum seekers' journey in NYC"
​2015        World Science Festival; co-presenter: "The Science of Chocolate"


V I D E O 

2023         "Creative Approach: Desserts at Denali Base Camp" (producer, DP, editor, subject — 30 minute feature film in distribution)
2022         "Climate Gallery Intro Video: North Cascades Glacier Climate Project" (producer, DP, editor, subject)
2022        "Rose McAdoo Artist Overview" (producer, DP, editor, subject)
2020        "We Become The Place: Making Cake in Antarctica" (editor, subject)
2018        "A Day in the Life: Whisk Me Away Cakes" (subject)
​2018        "Whisk Me Away Cakes Intro" (producer, subject)
2017        "This Woman Uses Cake to Spark Conversations of Social Change" (subject)
2017        "Using Desserts to Drive Global Change" (producer, subject)
2015        "Onwards We Go" and "We Believe" (interviews)
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P O D C A S T S 
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2024        Anchorage Museum Chatter Marks / Crude: "Ep91: Pastries, Science, and Baking in Extreme Environments with Rose McAdoo" 
2024        REI's Wild Ideas Worth Exploring: "Baking Cakes on Glaciers with Rose McAdoo"
2024        Regenerative Baking: "Desserts as an Exploration of Place"
2022        Studio ATAO: "Arts to Promote Healing in Prison" 
2022        Speaking Broadly: "Using Sugar to Change Minds"
2022        Edible Words: "Antarctica, Prison Cakes, and Glacier Sweets with Rose McAdoo"
2021        Women Mind The Water (archived by Smithsonian): "Rose McAdoo"
2019        Meat + Three: "Freezing"
2019        Highway Walkers: "Rose McAdoo: The Bake Packer"
2017        Heritage Radio's Wedding Cake: "McAdoo Part Two! Veggie Cakes"
2017        Heritage Radio's Wedding Cake: "Part One: Wedding Cakes for Global Change"
2017        Next Tuesday: "Creating an Inspiring and Adventurous Life"


E X P L O R A T I O N 

2024     Longyearbyen  |  The World's Northernmost Desserts
                          Svalbard, Norway; developed as part of the Arctic Circle artist residency sailing from 72° to 82.5° N
2024      Australia  |  Desserts in the Outback
                          Coober Pedy & Parachilna
2020      Antarctica  |  Baking and Decorating the Stories of Antarctic Science
                          McMurdo Station; United States Antarctic Program (contracted full-time employee / off-hours artist)
2019       Alaska  |  Bakepacking: Documenting Environmental Change by Crafting Pastry in the Wild Backcountry
                          Chugach National Forest, Exit Glacier, Harding Icefield, Matanuska Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park
2017       East Africa (solo expedition)  |   Cooking, Eating, and Sharing Stories with Tribespeople, Subsistence Farmers, and Refugee Populations
                         Democratic Republic of Congo, Lake Victoria, Remba Island, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Morocco
2015       Haiti + Dominican Republic  |  Studying Models of Micro-Enterprise Development, Poverty Alleviation, and Sustainable Agriculture
                          Rio Limpio, DR; Dajabon border community; Milot, Haiti; Cap-Haitian, Haiti
2015       Patagonia  |  Trekking the W Circuit and Attempting to Hitch a Sailing Vessel Up the Coast of Chile
                          Ushuaia, Argentina; Parque Nacional Torres del Paine; Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
2015       Colombia  |  Exploring One of the Most Densely Populated Islands on Earth
                          Santa Cruz del Islote, Cartagena


C O N S U L T I N G 

2021        Willow Cakes; Queenstown, New Zealand  (menu development + business strategy)
2016        Craft Kolache; Richmond, VA  (on-site culinary development)
2016        Argencove Chocolate; Nicaragua (remote competitor analysis + industry research)


E X T E R N A L   E M P L O Y M E N T

2022-2025+     NASA Facility Manager; US Antarctic Program, Antarctica
2021-2024        Lead Guide & Trainer; Exit Glacier Guides, Alaska
2022-2022        Soundscape Ecology Assistant; Anchorage Museum, Alaska (3-month contract)
2018-2020        Hazardous Waste Technician (winter) + Sous Chef (summer); US Antarctic Program, Antarctica
2015-2018        Head of Production; Nine Cakes, Brooklyn, NY
2015-2018        Agriculture Apprentice (2015) + Pastry Chef-in-Residence (2016-2018); Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm, Brooklyn NY
2013-2015        Education Outreach + Events Coordinator; Mast Brothers Chocolate, Brooklyn, NY
2010-2013        Head Chef + Catering Director; Stella’s Restaurant, Ithaca, NY
2011-2013        Pastry Sous Chef; Sarah’s Patisserie, Ithaca, NY
2009-2010        Pastry Lead Chef; Lake Powell Resort, Page, AZ

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O U T D O O R   T R A I N I N G   //   C E R T I F I C A T I O N S

Backpacking Guide: remote multi-day trips, bush plane supported (Alaska Alpine Adventures)
Glacier Guide: interpretive glacier hiking and ice climbing trips — via helicopter, ski plane, and by foot  (Exit Glacier Guides)
*Antarctic Winter Search and Rescue Team Member  (JASART)
Equipment Operator: Forklift, Bucket, Tracks, Snowmobile, Hägglund, Piston Bully  (USAP)
Wilderness First Responder + CPR  (NOLS/WMI)
Radio Communication: Daily Work and Emergency  (JASART + USAP)
*HAZWOPER: Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Management  (Lion)
FEMA IS-100.C: Introduction to the Incident Command System  (EMI)
FEMA IS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response  (EMI)
*Certification expired
** Backcountry proficiency includes snow/crevasse rope rescue systems, RADAR/GPS/RDF/FLIR, four-season camping, glacier crossing, kayaking, canoeing, backpacking, top-roping, belaying, rappelling, snow shelter construction, white-out training, basic ice climbing, emergency response, medical monitoring, triaging, gear inspection and maintenance