Baker Artist Portfolios

Jann Rosen-Queralt is an inter-disciplinary artist based in Baltimore, MD. With strong ties to the area, Rosen-Queralt is Director Emeritus of the Rinehart graduate School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she was faculty for some 40 years until her retirement in 2021. An avid scuba diver, her artworks reveal the poetic nature of water, exploring social and ecological relationships and connecting them to universal themes. With national recognition, Rosen-Queralt has exhibited artwork and completed dozens of commissions across the country. Notable works include: The Ocean, an installation of sculptures and photographs addressing the cosmic makeup of the sea; Argo, an immersive sculpture with synchronized lights/projection focused on the power of water; and Confluence, a permanent kinetic work celebrating water flow at a water treatment facility in Seattle, Washington. In 2023, with financial support from a Maryland State Arts Council grant, Rosen-Queralt self-published her first book Heart Beating Beneath the Earth, which includes photographs of some of her sculptures alongside written responses from over two dozen individual contributors. In 2024, images from her series A Sparrow on the Floor of a Cathedral, which were informed by a grant-sponsored trip to study Western landscape photographs at the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, were included in an exhibition at the Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C., and an animation piece, Arriving from A Great Distance, which follows the journey of a seed pod as it travels across global water currents, was displayed at the Parkway Theater as part Artscape. Recent research and an exploratory art and science residency aboard a research vessel in the Arctic Circle (2023) informs a new series that will be exhibited in Baltimore and Connecticut galleries in 2025.