about
Rosie McCobb is a multidisciplinary creator skilled at photography, writing, art direction, and design. She also curates and hosts arts, wellness, culinary, and cultural events that bring people together in thought-provoking and relaxing environments.
Rosie was born in Massachusetts, and raised in the rural North Shore area. She developed a passion for drawing, writing, and playing music, and participated in many solo and team-based, outdoor sports. A life-changing trip to East Germany before the Berlin Wall came down, and living in West Germany when she was 17, solidified Rosie's interest in history and other cultures. From an early age, Rosie instinctually understood the impact that learning, creativity, physical movement, and cultural exploration had on her life: all allowed a heightened state of perception, and a objective view of the human experience.
She studied creative writing, religion, psychology, and filmmaking as part of her BFA from Emerson College, and did post-graduate training in film production and photography at the Boston Film & Video Foundation, New England School of Photography, and Pratt Institute of Art.
Rosie spent over 30 years based in both Boston and New York City. Professional highlights included writing, directing and shooting a short-film called MRS., which screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Brooklyn Film Festival; writing articles for companies as varied as Timeout Travel Guides and The Girl Scouts of America; publishing as a writer and photojournalist in Citylimits.org; and acting as co-president of her Brooklyn block's gardening club and securing a grant for sidewalk landscaping from the Citizens Committee for NYC.
She started her own photography business in 2003, and began exhibiting her fine art photography at various venues, including a solo show called Natural Religion, and a feature series in the Main Lobby gallery of the Brooklyn Public Library called Unexpected Brooklyn: Neighborhood Landscape in Transition. In 2019, Rosie became the photography director for Manhattan design gallery, R & Company, where she collaborated with teams to produce and shoot room sets of design, art, and furniture items for marketing and editorial use. Some of her images from R were featured in design magazines Architectural Digest and Elle Decor.
When COVID and quarantine hit in 2020, Rosie was laid off from her gallery job. She had already spent several years as a weekend homeowner in the Catskills Mountains, and thought it was the right time to make a transition away from living in Brooklyn. As a hiker, cross-country skier, Nature lover, dog owner, and enthusiast of the holistic wellness and meditation practices in the Hudson Valley/Catskills areas, Rosie took the opportunity to settle up her City life, and move North for a new start.
She is currently based in Kingston and Woodstock, NY, and is the founder and creative director of lifestyle design and event business, Crimson Catskills.
