Marcella Rose
Pelican Rapids, MN
Visual, Design, Artisan, Oil Painter, Sculptor, Jewelry Design, Giclee Printing, Mixed Media
Workshops, Teach, Demonstrate, Serve as a Juror, Consultant
Marcella Rose traces her artistic roots and love for the natural world back to her formative years growing up on a western Minnesota farm. Following graduation from Minnesota State, Moorhead, Marcella’s art career carried her to Phoenix, Kansas City and Spokane. Acting upon a longstanding desire to focus on her core passion for the fine arts, she then moved to Santa Fe. More recently, she returned to Minnesota and now resides on Prairie Lake, just north of Pelican Rapids.
Marcella’s fine art encompasses sculpture, jewelry design and oil painting. Feminine figures and animals have long been a central focus of her work.
Marcella currently operates Rose Gallery and Lady of the Lake Studio in Pelican Rapids, offering Inspirational art — Oil Paintings, Sculpted Sterling Jewelry, and Sculpture, including the acclaimed bronze sculpture of Spirit Rising™, the monumental Minnesota Woman, her artistic rendition of what is, to date, the oldest human archaeological find in North America.
Recently, Marcella Rose exhibited in the prestigious ART Santa Fe show. ART Business News magazine shortly thereafter published an article about Marcella's sculpture inspiration for “Spirit Rising”. Her art likewise has been featured in several western art magazines.
In both 2014 and 2015, Marcella was commissioned by the National Bison Association to sculpt its Gold Trophy Award, presented to the group’s ‘Producer of the Year.’ She was a featured artist at the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum in 2013, and has participated in a variety of solo and group exhibitions around the Midwest, Northwest and Southwest. She also has been featured in numerous Upper Midwest newspaper and magazine articles and radio programs.
As of 2019, Marcella is serving for the fifth consecutive year as a mentor for art students, privately as well as through the Lake Region Arts Council of western Minnesota.
Marcella Rose is a member of the National Sculptor Society, Society of Minnesota Sculptors, Oil Painters of America, The Arts Partnership in Fargo, MN Arts, Made in Minnesota, Fargo-Moorhead Visual Artists and Art of the Lakes.
