I am currently an MFA Costume Design student at Northwestern University and will graduate in 2025. I work primarily out of Chicago and Minneapolis as a costume designer, assistant costume designer, and printmaker. My print work can be found at Rosie Josie Studio.
To participate in theatre as an artist or observer is to endeavor in empathy. In this way, theatre is a radical experience that hinges on human connection and collaboration. This artform is capable of filling bellies with laughter, hearts with pain, and minds with questions. As an artist, I am compelled to cast light on the human experience to solicit an empathetic response by putting our stories on stage in the forms of costume and puppetry. I am drawn to explore our societies and cultures by examining the individuals that inhabit them and I am curious about how identities culminate under the specific circumstances of a human being’s life. Lens-grinding stories that catalyze conversation and represent our nature, our bodies, and our experiences drive me to create. In my work as a costume designer, I have come to believe costume design lives at the intersection of circumstances and identity and theatre is an artform that can drive these conversations. I strive to research what happens at these intersections, map out their stories, and tell them through my designs.
Prints: www.rosiejosiestudio.com