Starting at Valley View Elementary and now teaching Sculpture and Studio Art at Westlake High School, Roselle has been teaching art in Eanes I.S.D since moving to Austin in 1994. She and her husband have raised three sons in Austin in that time as well.

Roselle grew up in New Rochelle, NY and attended the Ursuline schools in the area from the age of three, through high school, and all the way into higher education as a scholarship art student at the College of New Rochelle.

In August of 2009, she returned to the New Rochelle area, sadly, for her father’s wake but as it turned out, also to be asked to tackle the artistic challenge of a lifetime: create a statue of St. Angela Merici, the foundress of the Ursuline order and patron saint of young people.

That night, in the glow of a flashlight, in her old bedroom, Roselle—too excited to sleep—drew her original sketches of St. Angela reading to three young girls. The ¾ size bronze statue of St. Angela will be placed in an outdoor area at the Ursuline High School in New Rochelle.

But, where would she work on the project? Her husband probably wouldn’t look too kindly on clearing the living room of all the furniture.

The St. Angela Project at AAMP
This is where Austin Art + Music Partnership comes into the picture. Roselle was introduced to AAMP through the parents of some of her EISD students and it seemed a match made in heaven (no pun intended.)

Roselle estimates that the project will likely take two years to complete.