Sunday, August 7 at 16:30, Her\u00f0ubrei\u00f0<\/p>\n
Skaftfell warmly welcomes Rachel Simmons, our artist in residence for the month of August! This Sunday afternoon\u00a0Rachel will show her work FLOCK in the Her\u00f0ubrei\u00f0 gallery and introduce her practice and the workshop she\u00a0will host later this month for children and parents in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n
Rachel Simmons<\/strong><\/a> is an American artist-educator who teaches foundations, printmaking and book arts at Rollins College, an innovative liberal arts institution in Winter Park, Florida. She\u00a0began her teaching career after earning her MFA in Painting & Drawing from Louisiana State University. Rachel specializes in book arts & printmaking, and her diverse studio practice is\u00a0informed by both environmental activism and personal narratives. In her socially engaged art projects, Rachel asks community participants to think critically and creatively about our\u00a0relationship with nature. Endlessly curious about the natural world and our relationship with it, Rachel often collaborates with scholars from other academic disciplines and members of her community to create new work. She has traveled to Antarctica, Iceland, Namibia, the Galapagos Islands and many of the US National Parks to research environmental issues pertaining to these projects.<\/p>\n FLOCK is a socially engaged art project by Rachel Simmons that encourages communities to see their daily interactions with neighbourhood birds as opportunities for creative expression. It\u2019s comprised of more than one hundred relief prints – cut into a variety of bird silhouettes – each one inked and printed by participants in printmaking studios across the United States. The bold patterns and rich colours represent each participant\u2019s creative choices, but together the birds that make up FLOCK become a collective expression of our relationship with nature. You can learn more about the project by visiting www.rachelsimmons.net<\/a>.\u00a0Rachel will offer this two-part workshop for children and parents, involving birdwatching and printmaking, later in August in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday, August 7 at 16:30, Her\u00f0ubrei\u00f0 Skaftfell warmly welcomes Rachel Simmons, our artist in residence for the month of August! This Sunday afternoon\u00a0Rachel will show her work FLOCK in the Her\u00f0ubrei\u00f0 gallery and introduce her practice and the workshop she\u00a0will host later this month for children and parents in Sey\u00f0isfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Rachel Simmons is an American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-residency"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}