Rose Marasco is a prolific photographer and an award winning educator. 

She is Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Southern Maine. In 1979 she initiated and secured accreditation for the photography curriculum at USM where she taught for 35 years. Prior to this at age 24, she initiated the photography program at the School of Art/Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY, where she taught for 5 years. Currently she serves as a faculty mentor and a visiting artist in several MFA programs.

Marasco has had significant solo museum shows, including at: the University of New England Art Gallery, the Houston Center for Photography, the Davis Museum of Art at Wellesley College, the Farnsworth Museum of Art, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, and the Latvian Museum of Photography, in Riga.

Her retrospective, index, originated at the Portland Museum of Art in 2015 and travelled in 2018 to Munson, her hometown museum in Utica, N.Y. index was nationally featured and/or reviewed in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, American Photo Magazine, OSMOS Magazine, Downeast Magazine, The Maine Sunday Telegram, The Portland Phoenix, and numerous other publications in Maine and New England.

Marasco’s solo gallery exhibits include: OSMOS Gallery, NYC, 2025-26, Meredith Ward Fine Art, NYC, 2014, and the Sarah Morthland Gallery, NYC, in 1998, 2000, and 2002. These exhibits were reviewed or highlighted in the New Yorker, The New York Times, and New York Magazine.

She has had 30 solo exhibitions and has participated in 80 group shows.

Marasco’s photographs are included in numerous private and public collections including at: The Fogg Museum at Harvard University; Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection; the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College; New York Public Library Photography Collection; Portland Museum of Art; Bowdoin College Museum of Art;  Colby College Museum of Art, Bates College Museum of Art, the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress among others.

Marasco has lectured extensively about her work, including at: Harvard University, Parsons School of Design, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Bowdoin College, Bates College and numerous colleges and museums across the country. Marasco has a B.F.A. from Syracuse University and a M.F.A. from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, where she studied with Nathan and Joan Lyons.

Marasco published a book of photographs and text entitled, At Home, which was inspired by the 1837 Greek Revival home she purchased on auction in 2003. From the very first day in the house she began to find objects (currently numbering 86) throughout the house and yard. Several of the objects related directly to her own life and background. She began to write about these objects and connections, researched the history of the house, made photographs of the objects in various ways, and examined her own trajectory as an artist and a teacher. This includes how the arts, particularly drawing, printmaking and photography, have shaped her life from a very young age. She writes too about the invention of photography (officially noted as 1839) as it parallels the 1837 construction of the house.

At Home was published by OSMOS Books. It includes Marasco’s text with selected bodies of work and a Foreword by Lucy R. Lippard.