Artist Works

EDUCATION

BFA   Memphis College of Art , Major: Decorative Design, concentration in Fiber
Viola-Joyce Quigley Memorial Textile Award, Lytle McKee Memorial Scholarship, Shainberg Scholarship
University of Memphis, 27 hours toward BFA
BA   Emory University, Major: Religion-Judaic Studies
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, one year
Austin College, Sherman, TX, one year

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2000-2003    Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1999   Contemporary 1999, Jufied Competition, Fuller’s Art Lodge, Los Alamos, NM
1997-1998   Waxlander Khadoure Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1997   Expressions in Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1996   Art Resources, Birmingham, MI
1994   Raleigh Gallery, DCOTA, Miami, FL; Seventh Annual Juried Competition: Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
1993   Boca Raton Museum of Art
1992   Fifth Annual Juried Competition: Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
1991   Brooks Museum of Art: Art Today Benefit Exhibition, Memphis, TN; Southern Exposure: Juried Competition, Germantown, TN; Bell Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
1989   Richard’s Gallery, Memphis, TN
1988   Senior Exhibit, Memphis College of Art; Fiber Exhibit, Memphis College of Art
1986   Third Place, Print Show, Malone and Hyde, Memphis, TN; Fiber Exhibit, Memphis College of Art
1985   University Gallery, Memphis State University

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Hardin’s Sysco, Memphis, TN
International Paper, Germantown, TN
Wesley Manor, Atlanta, GA

PUBLICATIONS

PASATIEMPO: THE NEW MEXICAN’S Weekly Magazine of the Arts: May 2-8, 2003
“La Luna” by Rachel Darnell
FOCUS SANTA FE: January - March 2003
“A Mystical Universe”: Rachel Darnell takes un into a spacious world.
IONS: NOETIC SCIENCE REVIEW; September - November 2001
“Connecting Inner Assets”; “Soliel” by Rachel Darnell
NEW MEXICO MILLENIUM COLLECTION: A Twenty-First Century Celebration of Fine Art in New Mexico: 2000
“La Reina de la Salsa” by Rachel Darnell
FOCUS SANTA FE: April - May 2000
“A Spiritual Connection to an Ancient Past”: The woven canvas art of Rachel Darnell combines the expressiveness of painting with the primitive structure of weaving.