Rachael SHANNON
EDUCATION
2018 Vermont School of Woodworking | Foundations I
2013 Maryland Institute College of Art | MFA, Community Arts
2013 Maryland Institute College of Art | Certificate in the College Teaching of Art
1998 The University of Texas at Austin | BFA, Studio Art
1995 Colorado College | Minor, Women’s Studies
WORK EXPERIENCE
2018-Present Contract Preparator & Art Handler | Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX
2016 -2017 Summer Pre-College Core Instructor, Fiber Department |Maryland Institute College of Art
Workshop Facilitator, Inflatable Architecture| Mycket Collective, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Workshop Facilitator, Inflatable Architecture |Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
2013-2017 Operations Manager, Director of Leadership Initiatives |Access Art, Baltimore MD
2015 Adjunct Faculty, Fiber Department | Maryland Institute College of Art
2013 Graduate Teaching Intern – Introduction to Fiber| Maryland Institute College of Art
2012 Graduate Teaching Intern –Sculptural Forms | Maryland Institute College of Art
2012 Special Projects Coordinator | Access Art, Baltimore MD
2011 Teaching Artist | Ednor Gardens/Lakeside Summer Youth Art Program, Baltimore MD
2002–2011 Founding Partner, Artist, Designer | Redstart Paint Design, Austin TX
2010 Teaching Artist | Creative Action/Theater Action Project, Austin TX
2004-2005 Fundamentals of Art, High School Instructor |The Griffin School, Austin TX
2000-2002 Forewoman, Artist | Jennifer Chenoweth Projects, Austin TX
1998-2000 Forewoman, Artist | Will Grey Edwards Decorative Painting, Austin TX
1998 Co-Facilitator, Animation Class for youth ages 9-12 | Dougherty Arts Center, Austin TX
1995 Art Instructor, Summer Youth Programming | The Glassell Jr School of Art, Houston TX
1988-1992 Teaching Assistant | The Glassell Jr School of Art, Houston TX
AFFILIATIONS
2019 - present Undoing White Supremacy Austin, Austin TX | Organizers
2020 Capital Area Master Naturalists, Austin TX | Master Naturalist Certification; Class Representative
2019-2020 Diversidad Sin Fronteras, Austin TX | Co-Organizer
2015-2017 Showing Up for Racial Justice Baltimore, Baltimore MD| Founding Leadership Team
2014-2017 Baltimore Racial Justice Action, Baltimore MD | Member
2013-Present Queerstories, Baltimore MD | Founding Member
2008-2010 Architectural Artisans Collective, Austin TX | Member
2001-2006 The H2HOs Synchronized-Swimming Collective, Austin TX | Founding Member, Costumer
VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENTS
2018 Sanctuary Caravan, New Sanctuary Coalition, Tijuana MX | Volunteer
2012-2014 Creating Change Conference | Art Studio Space Volunteer
2011-2012 Access Art, Baltimore MD| Art Facilitator/AmeriCorps Volunteer
2008-2011 Girls Rock Camp, Austin TX | Art Workshop Leader & Band Counselor
1999-2001 Hip Hop 4 Laydeez Bi-Monthly Benefit, Austin TX| Assistant Director, Designer
AWARDS
2016 Ruth Katzman Scholarship | The League Residency at Vytlacil, Sparkill NY
2013 LAB Award | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
MFA in Community Arts Award for Excellence | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
Graduate Research Award | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
2012 Community Arts Grant | Baltimore Community Foundation, Baltimore MD
Office of Community Engagement Grant | Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, NS | Resistance as Usual
Nocturne: Art at Night, Halifax NS | Breastival Vestibule
Norrtalje Museum, Sweden| Collaboration with Mycket Collective: Luftslott - Castles in the Air
2014 Art Marathon Festival, Eastern Edge Gallery, St John’s NL | Breastival Vestibule
VisArts, Rockville MD | Ripple: An Exhibition of Cloth, Community, and Connectivity – Queerstories
Creating Change Conference, Houston TX | Breastival Vestibule
2013 MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn NY | Breastival Vestibule
Polari Film Festival, Austin TX | Breastival Vestibule Short Film
Le Petit Versailles, New York NY | Craftivism – Group Exhibition
Transmodern, Baltimore MD | Breastival Vestibule
D-Center, Baltimore MD | Breastival Vestibule
GayBiGayGay Festival, Austin TX | Breastival Vestibule
Creating Change Conference, Atlanta GA | Breastival Vestibule
2012 Fox Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD | A Region Abundant in Wildlife
2011 The OffCenter, Austin TX | Fukstik Salon
2009 Vivo, Vancouver BC | The After Party – Group Exhibition
2008 La Central Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal QC | Gender Alarm – Group Exhibition
PERFORMANCE
2016 Eulogy for the Dyke Bar, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, NY, NY | Queerstories’ Lezbian Popcorn Cart
2015 Queer Pulse, EMP Collective, Baltimore MD | Queerstories’ Lezbian Popcorn Cart
2015 Outsider Film & Arts Festival, Austin TX | Queerstories’ Lezbian Popcorn Cart
2014 VisArts, Rockville MD | Ripple: An Exhibition of Cloth, Community, and Connectivity –
Queerstories’ Lezbian Popcorn Cart
Baltimore MD | Queerstories’ Lezbian Popcorn Cart
2013 Baltimore MD | Projection Event -Queerstories with Luminous Intervention: We Were Here We Are Here
2013 Art Gallery of York University, Toronto ON | Allyson Mitchell’s KillJoy’s Kastle:
A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House
2012 Transmodern Festival, Baltimore MD | F.E.A.S.T. Performance
2011 GayBiGayGay Festival, Austin TX | Gretchen’s Disco Plague
2009 Trivia Travesty, Austin TX | Guest Artist - Hillary Clinton
2007 CampCamp Monthly Queer Performance Night, Austin TX | Featured Performer - Hillary Clinton
2002 Austin Pride Festival, Austin TX | Raunchy Reckless & the Amazons
COSTUME & DESIGN
2015 Book Cover Illustration | Queer Rock Love by Paige Schilt
2012 Project Coordinator, The Living Wall | Morrell Park Memorial Garden, Baltimore MD
2010 Installation Design | Allyson Mitchell, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2008-2010 Set Design | GayBiGayGay Festival, Austin, TX
2005 Set Design - Redstart Paint Design | The Real World MTV, Austin TX
2004-2005 Costume Design, The H2HOs | Women & Their Work Gallery Annual Spring Fundraiser, Austin TX
2001-2005 Costume Design, The H2HOs: Renegade Feminist Synchronized Swimming Annual Extravaganza,
Austin, TX
PRESS
2021 Cvetkovich, Ann. “ It Feels Right to Me: Queer Feminist Art Installations and the Sovereignty of the
Senses”, Feminist Media Histories Spring 2021
2016 Kenins, Laura. “Breastival Vestibule,” The Coast, October 13, 2016.
2015 Puleo, Risa. “New Spaces of Queer Separatism,” Art Papers, March-April 2015.
2013 Campbell, Andy, “Fest Breasts: The Return of Rachael Shannon, and Her Art”, The Austin Chronicle,
March 16, 2013.
“Student Helps Community Re-Envision Park,” Juxtapositions, Jessica Weglein, Ed. April-May 2013.
2012 GayBiGayGay: Portraits of a Backyard Utopia, Monofonus Press, Spring 2012.
2008 “Fall Into Style, “ Austin Monthly Home, Fall 2008.
2005 Nora Ankrum, “H2HOs: Hijacking the Third Wave,” The Austin Chronicle, May 14, 2004.
Kwon, Jean. “Rachael Shannon and Michelle Marchesseault: Interior Decorative Painting,”
Austin American Statesman, September 22, 2005. E-8.
2004 Beal, Chandra Moira. “Renegade, Feminist Synchronized Swimming Team: The H2Hos
Make a Splash,” Austin Woman Magazine, April, 2004.