Meganne Rosen moved back to Springfield, Missouri in 2018 after residing in Oakland, California for two years where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Rosen also completed a Master of Arts (MA) in Studio Art and Theory (2011) and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Art History (2006) at Drury University. In Springfield, Meganne teaches Art History I & II, Drawing I & II, and Portfolio Development in the Arts and Humanities department at Ozarks Technical Community College. She is happy to have joined the full-time faculty in the fall of 2021 at OTC. She previously taught in the Art and Design department at Missouri State University, has taught in the Arts Administration program at Drury University, and has been a faculty member at the Missouri Fine Arts Academy.
Rosen’s recent projects include her solo exhibitions Ephemeris (2021) and Bathymetry (March 2020) at Obelisk Home; her inclusion in the Angad Biannual in St. Louis, MO (January- August, 2020); her solo exhibition Transparency & Toxicity at ArtLink in Fort Wayne, IN (December, 2019); her thesis exhibition at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco (April, 2018); the publication of “Isoluminance, Racial Trauma, and the Stamina of Perception: Amanda Wallace’s Field | House” for the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts and contemtporary.org; her curation and participation in Artifice & Nature, a four person exhibition in San Francisco (November, 2017); and her inclusion in several group exhibitions (2018-2021) in California, Missouri, New York, and Oregon.
Rosen was an artist in residence in 2018 at both LACAWAC in Aerial Lake, Pennsylvania and Byrdcliffe in Woodstock, New York. She was featured in volume twelve of the print edition of Create! Magazine (December, 2018) and in an interview on their website. Meganne is also featured in volume 42 of Studio Visit Magazine, DeLuge Arts & Literary Journal (Fall, 2020), Bangor Literary Journal (Fall, 2020), and Past Ten (July, 2021).
In addition to teaching full time at OTC, Meganne has an active studio practice, and is currently working on her upcoming solo exhibition of oil paintings, Lineage (May, 2022).