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
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
2025 The Weather Channel: "Rose McAdoo"
2025 High Country News: "How to Preserve a Glacier's Legacy"
2024 New York Times: "Why Cakes Can Be A Powerful Form of Protest"
2024 Food Digest: "A Culinary Activist Bakes at 7,200 Feet"
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
2025 Anchorage Museum: "Creative Approach" (film screening, panel discussion, and Edible Landscapes workshop — upcoming)
2025 Slip Gallery: "Shaped By Ice" (panel discussion and live desserts with Protect Our Winters)
2025 Feathered Friends Seattle: "Creative Approach" (documentary release party, Q&A, giveaways)
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
2025 AWARD WINNER, DENALI FILM FESTIVAL "Creative Approach: Art at Denali Base Camp" (subject, PA)
2024 OFFICIAL SELECTION, MOUNTAINFILM "Girls Riding High" (b-roll video contributor)
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)
P O D C A S T S
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
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
2025 Seattle, Washington: Group show featuring glacier science art curated by Jill Pelto
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
2025 The Weather Channel: "Rose McAdoo"
2025 High Country News: "How to Preserve a Glacier's Legacy"
2024 New York Times: "Why Cakes Can Be A Powerful Form of Protest"
2024 Food Digest: "A Culinary Activist Bakes at 7,200 Feet"
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
2025 Anchorage Museum: "Creative Approach" (film screening, panel discussion, and Edible Landscapes workshop — upcoming)
2025 Slip Gallery: "Shaped By Ice" (panel discussion and live desserts with Protect Our Winters)
2025 Feathered Friends Seattle: "Creative Approach" (documentary release party, Q&A, giveaways)
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
2025 AWARD WINNER, DENALI FILM FESTIVAL "Creative Approach: Art at Denali Base Camp" (subject, PA)
2024 OFFICIAL SELECTION, MOUNTAINFILM "Girls Riding High" (b-roll video contributor)
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)
P O D C A S T S
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
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
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