Rose Marie Arbour is an art historian. In 1976 she directed the television program Télé-visite au Musée (Tele-Visit at the Museum) as part of her research as a professor in the Art History Department at UQAM. She was invited by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal to curate the exhibition Art et féminisme in 1982, she published on the role of women within the Automatists in Québec, and, in 1999, she wrote an essay entitled L’art qui nous est contemporain at Artextes Editions, Montréal.