Rachel Kessler
Organization Details
| Name | Rachel Kessler |
| URL | http://rachelkessler.org/ |
Organization Description
| Mission statement | Rachel Kessler is a poet, essayist, performing artist, and multidisciplinary collaborator working as a teaching artist in Washington for 17 years. She has taught through Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program at Seattle’s Washington Middle, Ballard High, BF Day Elementary, and Whittier Elementary schools, Port Townsend’s Blue Heron School, and Shoreline’s Cascade K-8. She also teaches innovative creative writing youth intensives through Centrum’s Middle School Explorations in Port Townsend and Hugo House’s Scribes Program in Seattle. Through Path With Art she teaches adults in recovery from homelessness, addiction, and other trauma. She has been a guest teaching artist at King County’s juvenile detention, Seattle and King County Public Libraries, and guest lecturer at the University of Washington’s Rome Center, UW Friday Harbor Labs, Highline College, and elsewhere. Rachel’s books include Who Are We? (with 7-inch record) and The Rendezvous Reader. Her Public Health Poems, an interactive hand-washing poetry installation, received a Seattle Office of Arts & Culture award, and can be found in public restrooms throughout King County. Her text-based visual art has been featured in The Open Daybook and Alaska Quarterly Review, her poems appear in Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Poetry Northwest, and her essays are published in The Stranger and Seattle Metropolitan, among other publications. As co-founder of acclaimed literary performance groups The Typing Explosion and Vis-à-Vis Society, she has collaborated, written, performed, and created installations nationally and internationally, including during the Venice Bienale, at The Frye Art Museum, and the Bellevue Arts Museum. She has shared the stage with Macklemore, The Blues Scholars, John Ashberry, and Billy Collins, performing at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Bowery Poetry Club, DIA Chelsea and Beacon NY, The University of Arizona Poetry Center, The Moore Theater, among other places. She received both King County 4Culture and Seattle City Artist awards to complete her current work-in-progress, a book about the intersection of puberty and spirituality. |
| Service(s) description | Literary Art or Spoken Word/Performance Poetry, Multidisciplinary: Visual Poetry, Video Poems, Performance Art, Personal Essay |
| Program impact | not provided |
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