Rachel Epp Buller
Rachel Epp Buller leading a workshop on listening and sharing knowledge through our bodies, at Flutgraben, Berlin, July 2018
Dr. Rachel Epp Buller (US) is a feminist art historian, visual artist, professor, and mother of three. Her books include Reconciling Art and Mothering and Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity, edited with Charles Reeve. She exhibits and speaks about her work internationally and she is an active curator, with exhibitions curated for the Wichita Art Museum, the Ulrich Museum of Art, the Spencer Museum of Art, Kauffman Museum, Womanmade Gallery Chicago, and Das Verborgene Museum in Berlin, which hosted Alice Lex-Nerlinger, 1893-1975: Fotomonteurin und Malerin / Photomontage Artist and Painter, the first-ever retrospective of the artist’s work. She has received major grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission (twice), the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (three times), the Max Kade Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Art Education Foundation (twice). She is a board member of the Women's Caucus for Art (US), a regional coordinator of The Feminist Art Project (international), and a professor of visual arts and design at Bethel College (US). Her new book and current research-creation project is tentatively titled Acts of Listening: Art and Relational Attunement.
Practice Statement
My practice orients to feminist relations of care. Past work has focused on maternal care and family relations, the sharing of intergenerational knowledge(s), pedagogical care in the expanded classroom, and care-informed curatorial experiments. My current research focuses on care through relational listening as artistic practice. This takes the form of writing, walking, stitching, drawing, printmaking, and letter-writing.