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Rachelle Beaudoin

Professor of Practice in Digital Media and Senior Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

Digital Media, Video, Performance Art, Feminist Art

Education

MFA, Rhode Island School of Design

Biography

Rachelle Beaudoin is an artist who uses video, wearables and performance to explore feminist identity within popular culture. She attended the 17³Ô¹ÏÍø and holds a Master’s degree in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions, Welcome to the Bob House, at 3SArtspace in Portsmouth, NH, 2016 and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Internet at the Magenta Suite, Exeter, NH 2019. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO 2013. She was a Fulbright Core Scholar artist-in-residence at quartier21 in Vienna, Austria in 2014. In 2015, she was a Clowes Fund Fellow at Vermont Studio Center. In 2019, she was an artist-in-residence at Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH.  
 

She recently curated the exhibition, Always Be Around: Corita Kent, Community and Pedagogy, at the Cantor Gallery at the 17³Ô¹ÏÍø, featuring the work of artist, educator and social justice advocate Corita Kent and eleven contemporary artists including Lee Walton, Christine Sun Kim and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo.   

Courses

  • Digital Art Studio 1
  • Digital Art Studio 2
  • New Media
  • Digital Art Studio 1

News, Research, & Publications

Always Be Around, Cantor Art Gallery, 2023  
 

Art in Odd Places, 2024, CARE  
 

NH PBS, Our Hometown  
 

NH PBS, Our Hometown  
 

Painting At Night,  Painting at Night, with Collar Works and the Artist/Mother podcast, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY curated by Sean Desiree and Alissa Sikelianos-Carter
Collar Works,  


Worcester Art Museum, Central Mass Artist Initiative,   curated by Sam Cataldo

 

Aldredge, Michelle, Studio Visit, Rachelle Beaudoin, Art New England Magazine, September/October, 2019, vol 4, issue 5, page 16.  
 

Makey Makey Featured Educator  

Clubs & Organizations

Student Art Society /HCArt 
Children and the Arts, Peterborough NH,