While in Boston she continued working with youth by teaching art classes at several community art centers. She then returned to Boston to attend Boston University and earned a master’s degree in Arts Administration. She served for two years as an Americorps VISTA Volunteer working in Syracuse at a youth development after-school program as the Community Arts and Culture Organizer. After college she became a member of the Syracuse Peace Council and the Bread and Roses Collective House. During college and after, she was an active member of Syracuse’s radical cheerleading squad, the Syracuse System Shakers. During her time at SU she became involved in several campus-based activist groups and so began her passion for art and activism. Kimberley McCoy, originally from Boston, Massachusetts, earned her BFA in Art History from Syracuse University. Her work with ArtRage is the culmination of years of passion for art and social change.Ībout the Community Engagement Organizer, Kimberley McCoy In 2010 Rose was honored by Peace Action of Central New York with their Peacemaker Award. McKee Award in 2004 from the Preservation Society of Central New York. Rose is a recipient of the 1999 Cultural Resources Council’s Individual Artists’ grant was invited to show her work at the 1999 Contemporary Crafts Exhibit at the New York State Museum in Albany and received the Harley J. In 2001 Rose began volunteer work with the Syracuse Peace Council and presently serves on three active committees including the Steering Committee. In 1998 she was commissioned to create work for the Syracuse Stage theater season brochure. In 1994 Rose opened her own studio, ROSE COLORED GLASS, specializing in painted restorations of damaged and aging church windows creating original designs for clients, architectural firms and gallery exhibition. In 1987 Rose returned to Syracuse as a glass studio manager where she developed her restoration skills.

During that time she also worked in various political and community organizations in Boston. A native of Syracuse, New York, she received a Fine Arts diploma from the Art Institute of Boston with post-graduate courses in glass painting and structural stained glass from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. Rose has a background in art and community work that began in the early 1970’s in Boston, Massachusetts.

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