Marylin Quint-Rose (1927 - 2022) was a sculptor, educator and mentor. She attended classes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and earned a B.A. in education from Wheelock College in 1948. She went on to become a forerunner as a design instructor and artist at the School of the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts where she taught for 16 years. During this time, she earned an M.F.A. in sculpture at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Quint-Rose also spent 16 years as an instructor at the University of New England in Biddeford, ME. During her tenure there, she founded the local chapter of “Maine Women in the Arts” in Kennebunkport and worked at the Maine Commission on the Arts and Humanities. For many years, she led workshops and residencies in design, collage, and papermaking for children and adults throughout New England, as well as guest lecturing at the university level. She received many awards and honors for her art and showed at numerous exhibitions and competitions, including the Fourth International Biennial of Paper Art at the Leopold-Hoesch Museum in Duren, Germany. She had numerous solo shows throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her last major exhibit was at University of New England Artists, which included her sculpture Celadon Village.
Marylin Quint-Rose
Studios
Adams
Marylin Quint-Rose worked in the Adams studio.
Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…