Rachel Stein is an artist and educator based in Baltimore, Maryland. She creates video, photography, sound, and interactive sensory environments to activate the mind through curiosity and play.  Her interest in the connection between tactile experiences and inner states of being has inspired her to consider ways of reframing the body in relation to everyday materials, particularly synthetic materials.  With the pervasiveness of synthetics in our lives, she's reconsidering how meaning is embedded into objects and how our bodies can relate them in novel ways. She invites viewers to question their own consumer reality and relationship with pleasure through sensory stimuli.

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EXHIBITIONS

2024 DoodleHatch Interactive Art Museum, Permanent Installation, Columbia, MD

2024 $99.99, The Blanc Gallery, New York, NY

2024 Awaken, Holtzman Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD

2024 Corporealities, Leidy Riggs Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2023 Annual Artist Exhibition, The Fox Building, Baltimore, MD

2023 Offsite_1, Sleepwalker Collective, Baltimore, MD

2023 Art Teacher as Artist Biennial, Board of Education Gallery, Clarksville, MD

2023 Outside In, Riggs Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2023 Green Space, Fischman Gallery, Johnson City, TN.

2022 MFAST 2nd & 3rd Year, Riggs Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2023 Feeling Tingly?, Sleepwalker Collective, Baltimore, MD

2022 Between Body and Earth, Riggs Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2021 2020 Favorite Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch, Online Exhibition

2020 Little Wins, The Curated Fridge, Online Exhibition

2019 Alumni Exhibition, Carver Center for Arts and Technology, Towson,MD

2019 Art Teacher as Artist Biennial, Board of Education Gallery, Clarksville, MD

2018 Art Teaching & Professional Learning, Towson University MFA Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2017 Peacockery, St. Charles Gallery, Baltimore MD 

2016 Those Who Can Do…Teach!, Towson Arts Collective, Towson MD 

EDUCATION

2024 MFA Studio Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2017 BA, Art Education, Art and Design, Towson University, Towson, MD

AWARDS

2021 Leslie King Hammond Fellowship Award, MICA

2019 Secondary Novice Art Educator Award, Maryland Art Education Association


PANELS/ TALKS/ WORKSHOPS

2024 Feeling Tingly? Thesis Talk, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2024 Zine Workshop, Towson University, Towson, MD

2023 - 2024 Studio Art MFA Program Info Session, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2018 - 2020  Curricular Presenter, Professional Development for Howard County Public School System

2016 Junior Critiques, Carver Center for Arts & Technology, Baltimore, MD

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2017-Present Visual Arts Teacher, Glenelg High School, Howard County Public School System

2017 - 2018 Visual Arts Teacher, Mount Hebron High School, Howard County Public School System

2011 - 2017 Art Instructor, The Painting Workshop, Baltimore MD

2016 - 2017 Art Instructor, Springwell Senior Living Center, Baltimore MD

2014 - 2015 Art Instructor, The New Century School, Baltimore, MD

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