You’re Invited: Mixed Media Artist Rachel Means ’08 to Speak During Arts Week Helen Cudahy Niblack ’42 Arts Lecture Series
If you would like to attend Ms. Means' virtual community presentation (April 24, 10-11am), please RSVP and we will provide you with the Zoom link and instructions for signing on.
Rachel Means ’08 will return to campus on April 24 — virtually — as our Helen Cudahy Niblack ’42 Arts Lecture Series artist as part of the festivities planned for Arts Week (April 19-24). Rachel is a mixed media visual artist, currently living and working in Austin, TX. After graduating from Foxcroft, she went on to Davidson College for her BA in Studio Art, then to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for an MFA in 2018. Since then, she has exhibited work in numerous places including Washington, DC; Davidson, NC; Tampa, FL; Austin, TX; Philadelphia, PA; and New York, NY. In 2019, she was a Visiting Artist at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, TX, and at the beginning of 2020, she participated in the Carrizozo Artist-in-Residence program in Carrizozo, NM.
In late 2020, she released her virtual art exhibition experience: Stillness, What Lies Beneath. Rachel's most recent installation was part of the Cage Match Project and is titled Overgrown. This project involved confronting an industrial caged-trailer that is constantly exposed to the elements. The linked video will give you a sense of how she works, approaching and responding to space and materials.
Rachel’s artist statement describes her work this way, “Through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, Rachel creates experiences that leave behind traces of her touch. Her process gives space to nuance and subtle gestures through tactility, abstraction, and material experimentation. She draws inspiration from the seen and unseen of the Christian faith as well as the beauty and decay of nature. She reconsiders and reflects on the intersections between the relational and internal.” You can read more about Rachel and see more of her work on her website.
Passionate about creating art as well as engaging artists and students, Rachel will give a community-wide talk about her artistic journey on Saturday, April 24 from 10-11am, which is open to interested alumnae and parents. Following her presentation, she will hold a virtual workshop for a group of students where they will each create a mixed media piece of their own.
Established in 2007 by Austi Brown ’73 in memory of her mother, the Helen Cudahy Niblack ’42 Arts Lecture Series seeks to bring a variety of fine, literary, performing, and practical artists and designers to Foxcroft to share their work, the nature of the creative process, and the breadth of artistic pursuits with both students and the community. It has sponsored visits by a Broadway actor and director, a champion cowboy poet, hip-hop artists from Senegal and New York, musicians, storytellers, and more. Kate T. Parker, photographer and author of Strong Is the New Pretty, was our last visiting Niblack artist in 2020.
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