Fresh from a summer studying architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, north metro high school student Euladora Rose has now begun her first semester as a full-time Post-Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) student at the University of Minnesota.
Ask Euladora Rose what she loves most about making art, and she will tell you it is the very beginning. Before the first mark is made, before materials are chosen, before anything exists at all.
“Turning a thought into a form,” she says. “Deciding how you’re going to do it. That’s my favorite part.”
For a high schooler who is already a Member Artist at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, a juried exhibition finalist, and a recent volunteer art teacher in Morocco, that sense of wonder has not faded. If anything, it drives everything else.
Euladora grew up moving between schools, drawing in her free time, and is now a full-time PSEO student at the University of Minnesota. What started as a love of sketching cats evolved into sculpture, mixed media, oil pastel, painting and wood carving. She does not confine herself to one style and never plans to.
“People find value in art being different and not confined to a niche,” she says.
That openness extends to the people who encounter her work. For Euladora, a finished piece is never entirely finished. It becomes something new depending on who is standing in front of it.
“Everyone has a different interpretation of an art piece,” she says. “When something is ambiguous, it makes people resonate and think about it differently. Even if you have an idea of what it means when you’re starting a piece, you discover new meanings. It gives another opportunity for interpretation.”
It is a generous way to think about creativity — one that leaves room for the viewer to bring something of their own.
Read more of Euladora’s story.
Excerpted with permission from “The Art of Seeing” by Haley Asanovich, Lake Minnetonka Lifestyle, August 2026. Photos courtesy Lisa Buck Photography LLC
You can see more of Euladora’s work at euladora.com.
