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ARTIST PROFILE
Biography
Rosaria Ieraci is a graduate of NYC Parsons School of Design, with a BFA degree in Design and Illustration. She became assistant art director and designer with Crown and Random House Publishers, overseeing both children's and adult titles.
This is where Rosaria met and illustrated a song in "Raffi’s, Everything Grows Songbook”. Designed charts for John Madden’s Pro Football books. She has met and worked with many writers, illustrators and celebrities. To name a few, includes children’s book Author/Illustrators: Brooke Goffstein and Sandra Boynton. Illustrators: David Passalacqua Sr., David Passalacqua Jr., and Robert Andrew Parker. Rosaria was introduced to author Dominick Dunne, whom she remembers to be a very nice gentleman and engaged in a nice conversation. She worked on one of his books that was published at Random House Publishers. Rosaria enjoys branching out to other kinds of artists and was invited to attend the Tony Awards dinner back in the 80’s. She met Walter Cronkite, Diahann Carroll, Melissa Manchester, Ben Kingsley, and many more talented individuals. In addition, her studies include courses with David Passalacqua’s Art and Illustration Workshop in Orlando, Florida. Continuing her education in art, Rosaria attended David Passalacqua Jr's school, the Jasar’s School of Drawing in Sayville, New York.
Rosaria enjoys working in many types of media, but has a love for watercolors where she chooses her subjects from nature, such as birds and flowers. Having been inspired as a high school student by the well-known and late artist, Roger Tory Peterson, she admires the abundance of color and detail used in his drawings. In addition to her inspirations, those artists include Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mary Cassatt, Albrecht Durer, and M.C Escher, to name a few. Rosaria works demonstrate the ability to vary in style from the graphic to the realistic to expressionist to the abstract. She considers herself to be and has also been identified as being a Renaissance artist, since she is curious about taking her art to the next level of being different and unique, and almost scientific.
In 2004, Rosaria was invited to enter up to two pieces of artworks in “The Connecticut Vision 2004”, held by the Mattatuck Museum, in Waterbury, Connecticut. Out of thousands of artworks received from all over the state, only a handful of artworks were selected, approximately forty-eight pieces were chosen. Rosaria’s artwork was favorably accepted and was on display, at this beautiful historical museum. She is a member of various art leagues and has recently joined the most prestigious art organization located in New York City, “The Pen and Brush, Inc.” This organization is dedicated to women in the visual, literary, and performing arts since 1894.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Rosaria grew up on Long Island. Rosaria has traveled to many lands and visited many countries. “It was a breath taking experience!” She freelanced throughout her junior high/high school years. While in high school, she entered a design contest and was voted in for “Best Design”, and this design was used to transform a classroom into a student lounge. She initiated as well as instructed an art program offered to Junior High School students and adults in Garden City, New York. Rosaria received a certificate of merit in recognition of outstanding school citizenship, motivation and achievement. Also to her credit she also instructed art classes for the East Lyme Adult Education and local art leagues.
Prior to college Rosaria worked for local printers freelancing, and designing spot illustrations for advertisement ads, logos, etc. She has designed for the CT Children’s Museum, in Niantic, CT. Having experience as a color separator, she has worked as an assistant production manager for an offset lithographer. Where she handled color separations for major publishers such as Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston, High Wire Magazine, toy packaging and distribution for H and G Toys. “Working in all these areas beforehand helped me to understand the handling of art works from start to finish and the many uses of it. Then I went to college and that was the cherry on my cupcake. My experience in the publishing field up to present day, led me to work on bigger cakes”.
Rosaria started her own company designing greeting cards and distributing them locally. She sells her cards at all Tri-Town Food supermarkets, The Parcel Centre, and at the Catskill Mountain Bookstore/Gallery, New York. In addition, Rosaria was chosen by Prime Time Café, in Pawcatuck, Connecticut, to transform an Adirondack style oak rocking chair into a work of art. This promotional campaign linked both Rhode Island’s and Connecticut’s businesses and promoted the arts/tourism to the area. “I love designing in ALL areas that I can apply my art.” Another of Rosaria’s most favorable experiences was to design two botanical drawings of two different kinds of roses and each distinctively had to match the color to a swatch that was going to tie in with the color of the couch. Since, she has a passion for designing, the use of Rosaria’s artworks are really endless because her styles are met in her assignments and comply with both, the client or the art buyer.
“I never let competitiveness interfere with what I truly love to do.
“What drives me to create?”
"The passion I have in producing art is almost you may say, like an old fashioned love affair. You want to enjoy the process and learn from it and watch it grow. I am always blooming with new and innovative ideas! I truly know that old fashioned love affairs still do exist, since I credit my success to my partner of nineteen years and we’ve produced four wonderful hybrid blooms”.
Rosaria's artworks are part of private collections. Prints of her artworks are also available upon request.
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