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, Rose’s commercial art career carried her to Phoenix, Kansas City, Spokane and Santa Fe. She returned to Minnesota several years ago and now resides on Prairie Lake, near Pelican Rapids.

Rose owns Marcella Rose Studio, offering inspirational fine art encompassing oil painting, jewelry design and sculpture. For more than three decades she has been represented by prestigious galleries around the United States.  Animals, symbology, and feminine figures have long been a central focus of her work.

Rose is a mentor for art students through the Lake Region Arts Council of western Minnesota. She is a member of the National Sculpture Society, Society of Minnesota Sculptors, Oil Painters of America, The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, The International Association of Female Professionals, The Arts Partnership, MN Arts, Made in Minnesota, Fargo-Moorhead Visual Artists, and Art of the Lakes.