My work ranges from drawing, mixed media sculpture, site-specific installation, socioecological performance and intervention, and writing media, as well as teaching, which I see as public outreach of my creative practice. Rocks, roots, rivers, grasses, and lichens are among my aesthetic and methodological tendencies. My identity as an artist is entwined in my ongoing place-learning; my creative output is carried by deep love of all that is earth-bound and honed by critical inquiry of our methods of inhabitation. Broadly, I’m interested in the entanglement of social and ecological systems and the materialization of knowledge practices on present and future landscapes—in other words, how what we come to know and teach each other shows up in the land. My work is about seeking to how to honor our ancient rapport with the earth and reorient our responsibilities to each other, human and more than human. I often work in collaboration, and I draw upon and across diverse areas of study, as well as my own embodied, emplaced experiences.

I hold a BFA in Studio Art (emphasis drawing and sculpture) from the University New Mexico, a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Sierra Nevada College, and a PhD in Art and Visual Culture Education from the University of Arizona. My current research focuses on multispecies pedagogies, pedagogies of place, and the intersection of environmental education with art cultures and science practices. Currently, I am Assistant Professor of Art Education at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

I am an artist-scholar symbiont of Submergence Collective alongside Kaitlin Bryson, Hollis Moore, and Mariko Oyama Thomas.

Contact me: rz@rachelzollingerart.com