Rachael Van Dyke (Artist-in-Residence, 2016)

"Scoville Point Lookout", 8 ¾" x 2 ¾" acrylic on 9x12 bristol paper, 2016

NPS/Rachael Van Dyke

 

Rachael at Scoville Point

Isle Royale Reflection

"Upon walking the rocky path to the cabin I was filled with fond memories of my own family's summer vacations on the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River. During my two week residency I spent the first 4 days with my husband and nine year old nephew watching him change from a boy to a young man in such a short time as he learned to quarter logs and build our fire, catch and cook trout, and learn canoe techniques. I delighted in this, and though sad to see them leave, I was ready to begin work on expressing the wild and remote land of Isle Royale."

-Rachael Van Dyke, 2016

• Read Rachael's full reflection from her residency on her personal webpage

 

Rachael

About the Artist

Rachael Van Dyke is a mid-career artist represented by LaFontsee Galleries (Michigan), Synchronicity Gallery (Michigan), Somebody’s Gallery (Michigan), BRAHM (NC), and Fuller Art House Gallery (Ohio). She is an avid traveler as an artist in residence with an upcoming residency with Cill Rialaig Arts Center in Ireland. She has participated in residencies in the historic town of Tusa, Sicily with Officina Stamperia del Notaio and on Isle Royale from July 1st to July 13th, 2016. Van Dyke’s residencies have also included Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy, Le Jardin Botanique, in Marnay sur Seine, France, TICA with the Art Institute of Chicago, and Les Tasis located in the Ardeche Valley of Southern France. She is also a Fulbright Memorial Fund teacher recipient to Japan.

Van Dyke has had solo art exhibitions with the Forest Hills Fine Art Center, the Power Center of Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, MI and the University of Michigan Hospital Gifts for Art program. She earned her MAE at the Kendall College of Art and Design and has worked 14 years as an art and design educator for all grade levels including adjunct instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. Rachael Van Dyke has participated in numerous public presentations and adult workshops including talks on art and creativity, art and the spiritual, and on how space and place influence a body of work. Van Dyke also engages in social activism through artmaking. The Future People, the design team of Van Dyke and her husband Cameron, currently is exhibiting in a solo exhibition at the Delaware Contemporary Art Museum and on tour with the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

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