Rachel Church

Artist and Educator

Student Work

2D Design and Graphic Design:

three black and white abstract or non objective designs, one with radial balance using triangles and rectangles, one with symmetrical balance using irregular quadrilaterals, and one with asymmetric balance using a lightbulb, plug and lightning bolt design
Notan expansion of the square exercise: radial balance, symmetric balance, and asymmetric balance using paper cut-outs

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
black and white non-objective approximate symmetry design with checkerboard effect presenting on concentric circles and
Notan expansion of the square exercise: approximate symmetry using paper cut-outs

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
Top image is a black and white photocopy of a photograph of sand dunes. Bottom image is a drawing of that image using line to create value
recreating value from a photograph using line

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
On image is a black and white photocopy of a photograph of a woman lounging on a chaise. Three other images recreate that image using the collage in one, paint in another, and line in another to represent value
recreating value from a photograph through collage, paint, and line

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
Three images. One has four non-objective abstract collages with materials with extra. The second had four pencil sketches of those collages. The third is one finished pen and ink drawing of one of the collages, directing bring, stone, feather, and netting texture
exploring tactile and implied texture:
1.    Create four collaged compositions using found tactile texture.
2.    Make a thumbnail sketch of each collage creating implied texture through use of line.
3.    Use your thumbnail sketches to choose your strongest composition. Recreate that composition as a 9”x12” finished drawing focusing on representing the tactile texture as implied texture through use of line.

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
Two paintings with identical composition of swooping organic shapes. The top painting is in warm colors of reds, oranges and yellows. The bottom is in cool colors of blues, greens and purples.
exploring warm and cool colors using similar compositions

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
Painting with two abstracted portraits of people, one person in warm colors and one person in cool colors.
exploring warm and cool colors using similar compositions

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
abstracted feather pattern in a diamond repeat block printed in yellow, dark red, and olive green.
surface pattern repeat with foam-block printing and triadic color harmony

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
painting with pen depicting the corned of a stone building with rounded windows and a concentric circle design in blues and oranges
design Inspired by research using complimentary color harmony – Student chose to research the Victoria Mansion, Portland, Maine.

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
A handmade board game of "Kate's Thursdays at USM" that has a path or squares that lead around to many drawing of places on campus
narrative map – Student chose to create a playable board game about her typical Thursday schedule.

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
Watercolor and pen map titled "Camino De Santiago" at the top in old style hand lettering with decorative boarder, ornate campus rose, hand drawn path that leads to a drawing of a church, and photocopies of rubber stamps to mark the stops
narrative map – Student chose to represent her experience walking the Camino De Santiago. The path is not topographically representational, but instead in a continuous loop to represent the cyclical nature of her personal experience with the Camino, and the stops are notated by the actual stamps one collects along the way.

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
Map titled "There and Back Again: How the Mangin Family Brought their Daughter Home". Map has a decorative boarder, silhouettes of have the US and Thailand and dotted line depicting the journey, and many vignettes represented different stories told about the trip
narrative map – Student chose to show the small stories that get told in her family about her adoption in a non-linear way to represent how they get retold over time out of chronological order.

ART 141: Surface, Space, and Time 2D (Introduction to 2D Design), University of Southern Maine – Instructor
Book cover for George Orwell's 1984 showing high rise buildings from the view of looking up. The buildings fade from red at the bottom to black and white at the top. 1984 is shown large in the sky above.
combining text and found imagery in Photoshop – book cover design

ART 213: Graphic Design 1, University of Maine at Machias – Instructor
Logo for Cliffside Coffee Company. A Coffee bead illustration is 1/2 smooth bean and 1/2 jagged cliff
logo design in Illustrator

ART 213: Graphic Design 1, University of Maine at Machias – Instructor

Book Arts and Printmaking:

long snake book (meandering accordion book) with multi-colored teacup prints
129 Teacups, snake book with block printsing and pop-ups

Single Page Folded Books Workshop for ART 342/EPC 582: Book Arts at Stone House, University of Southern Maine – Instructor
Pop-up book using printed geometric shapes
printed drum leaf book with block-printing, pop-ups, and non-adhesive wrap-around cover

“Printed Pop-Ups” Workshop for ART 342/EPC 582: Book Arts Summer Workshop, University of Southern Maine – Instructor
Accordion like book structure pulled out from a pink leather-spine cover. Intro pages show images of banana peels, ducks, and boxing gloves, and a meandering line with numbers and text to represent the boxing moves, including "duck" and "Slip"
tipped double, single-page folded book with screen printing and softcover – Student chose to depict a boxing routine and used leather on the binding to represent boxing gloves.

Printmaking I, University of Maine – Teaching Assistant – designed and taught screen printing unit, assisted student one-on-one
Reduction monoprint of spoons and a spatula in a kitchen jar
reductive monoprint

Printmaking I, University of Maine – Teaching Assistant – led monoprinting demo
etching of girl washing her face with many dark, active lines
working proof of intaglio with 3-step etch of line-work and aquatint, with scraping and burnishing

Printmaking I, University of Maine – Teaching Assistant – assisted student one-on-one
carousel book of body parts ope to a page directing the inside of an open mouth with teeth and braces
carousel book

Honors Art 3: Bangor High School – Visiting Artist