The Art of Care
How Rosie Campagna is turning creativity, caregiving, and lived experience into a new vision for ArtSit
Rosie Campagna has never lived in just one creative lane. Her story moves through film sets, poetry journals, photography darkrooms, music, theater, motherhood, childcare, and the kind of hands-on creativity that does not wait for permission. Long before she founded ArtSit, Rosie was already building a life around children, art, storytelling, and the belief that imagination is not just something we grow out of. It is something we need to be reminded to come back to.
Now, as the founder of ArtSit and the first ArtSitter on the platform, Rosie is bringing all of it together.
The Vision
ArtSit was created from a simple but powerful idea: childcare can be safe, responsible, creative, and deeply human. It can be more than supervision. It can be a space where children feel seen, where their ideas are welcomed, and where their creativity has somewhere to go.
Rosie's caregiving experience began early. She started babysitting at 13 and continued building real, hands-on childcare experience over the years. In 2001, she worked as a latchkey assistant for M.P.U.S.D. at Marina Vista Elementary. In 2002, she became a nanny and mother's helper for newborn twins, caring for them from infancy until they were two years old. In 2004, she worked as a babysitter with V.I.P. Babysitting in Carmel, the same year she became registered with TrustLine.
She is also a mother of two daughters, ages 22 and 15, and has been married to her best friend for 24 years. That part of her life gives her approach to childcare a groundedness that cannot be manufactured. She understands the rhythm of family life, the tenderness of childhood, the need for patience, and the importance of meeting each child as an individual.
But Rosie is not just bringing a caregiver's background to ArtSit. She is bringing a whole creative history with her.
In high school, from 1994 to 1996, Rosie studied film and video production through the Regional Occupation Program, learning both analog and digital production and earning a certificate. This was not just classroom theory. She wrote scripts, produced a commercial for chocolate milk, created a short film starring her breakdancing friends, and served on the crew for her school's video yearbook during her senior year.
That early love of story kept unfolding. Rosie later studied fine arts, drawing, 2D design, bookmaking, photography, and business in college. Her photography education included traditional darkroom work and lensless alternative photography, the kind of process that teaches you to slow down, look closely, and notice what light can do. She also found her voice on the page, winning a poetry contest and having several poems published in various journals and publications.
Her creative life kept stretching across mediums, never settling into just one identity. She owned her own photography business. She worked as a paid actress in Hollywood. In 2007, she appeared as Gacia in the award-winning Los Angeles short film Somewhere in the City. More recently, she performed locally with the Perennial Players. She has sung in a band, written and produced her own music, created videos for her songs, and taught herself how to self-distribute her music on streaming platforms.
There is a throughline in all of it: Rosie knows what it means to make something from the ground up. That same spirit now lives inside ArtSit.
As an ArtSitter, Rosie's sessions may include drawing, painting, collage, handmade books, storytelling, poetry prompts, imaginative play, creative writing, photography-inspired projects, beginner-friendly film and video storytelling, or music-inspired creative play. But the heart of the work is not about making perfect projects. It is about helping children trust their own ideas.
For Rosie, creativity is not a luxury activity. It is a way of connecting. A way of building confidence. A way of helping children express what they may not yet have words for.
And because Rosie is currently earning a certificate through Calbright's Project Management program, she is bringing more than creative instinct to the platform. She is also bringing structure, organization, planning, communication, and a serious commitment to building ArtSit with care and professionalism.
That balance is what makes ArtSit different. It is not careless creativity, and it is not rigid professionalism. It is both. It is warm, imaginative, thoughtful, and safety-minded.
As the founding ArtSitter, Rosie is using her own experience to shape the standards behind ArtSit before expanding the platform to include other independent creative childcare providers. She is building the kind of service she would want as a parent: trustworthy, personal, creative, and clear.
ArtSit is still young, but the vision is already strong. It is for the parent who wants more than a babysitter who sits on the couch. It is for the child who wants to make, pretend, draw, write, build, sing, tell stories, ask strange questions, and be met with curiosity instead of correction. It is for families who want childcare that feels human.
For Rosie, ArtSit is not just a business idea. It is the next chapter in a creative life that has always been about care, expression, and possibility. Because childcare is not just about watching children. It is about creating space for them to explore, imagine, and grow into who they are becoming.