Rosemarie Oehler Adcock was born in 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, weeks after her family immigrated to the United States from Germany and Austria through Canada.

Between 1978 and 1980, she attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago, where she studied under Eugene Hall, an apprentice of the Russian painter, Alexander Zlatoff-Mirsky, who was himself an apprentice to the Russian master, Ilya Repin. After Hall's death, she attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing in 1987. She received a full housing & tuition scholarship from the Minister of Culture of Baden-Wurtenberg, Germany; and spent nearly two years studying at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Her certificate of study under the director Klaus Arnold,and also Max Neumann, guest professor for the class of Professor Markus Lupertz, was in printmaking and monumental painting.

In Germany her work began to reflect the political issues surrounding the eventual fall of the Berlin wall, moving through etching and lithography into painting. This focus remained throughout the upheaval of the Communist governments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and on into the eventual rebuilding of Russia. The exhibition of over 100 paintings toured in the United States and Western Europe resulting in the acquisition of relief assistance of over $1.25 million in gift-in-kind donations of vegetable seeds and vitamins for poor families and children in orphanages The transport of those items was donated by the U.S. Department of Defense. It was at that time that the artist founded the charitable organization, Arts for Relief and Missions (ARM). She continues to serve on the corporation's board of directors, and as a speaker in churches and conferences in the United States and abroad. In 1999 she was married to Reverend Ed Adcock, who now serves as the President of ARM, the director of ARM's music ministries and CAMMA.

Rosemarie continues development of monumental painting for use in interior worship spaces. Some of these large works are executed live during worship concerts, or in public arenas for evangelistic outreach. Currently developing work can be seen at the web site of the Chapel Gallery

The artist's work is in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and Western and Eastern Europe. 

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ARTICLES NEWSPAPERS:

Aurora Beacon News; 18 March 1989

The Daily Journal, Wheaton; 30 March 1989

The Daily Herald, Wheaton; 13 April 1989

Sewickley Herald; 25 October 1989

The Journal; 18 December 1992

 

PERIODICALS:

The Christian Reader; July-August 1989

World Magazine; 17 June 1989

Moodycaster; October 1991

Today's Christian Woman; March-April 1992

World Vision Magazine; Dec93/Jan 1994 cover, article

Partners Magazine; Dec 94/Jan 1995 cover, article

Cornerstone Magazine, Vol 26, Issue 112. (1997)

Cornerstone Magazine (1998)

RADIO

WMBI 20 March 1989

WETN 14 April 1989 (tape available)

KAIO 28 October 1989

KARV 20 February 1990

WMBI 13 July; 4 Oct. (network), 8 Oct., 1991

WYLL September 1996 Sandy Rios Show

WYLL 6 October 1997, Dick Staub Show (network)

CDR 2 October 1997 Radio Network, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky

TELEVISION

CTV, 19 March 1990; Pittsburgh area

Cable TV Nov. 1991; Arlington Heights, IL

WCFC Channel 38, Dec. 20, 1991; Chicago, IL

WCFC Channel 38 Feb 17, 1992

(Network)"You Need To Know" 21 June 1994

CTN 6 February 1998; USA, Romania