raechel running
ARTIST FOR THE AMAZON

Artist Background
RAECHEL RUNNING
Base: Tucson, AZ 2013
Born: Flagstaff, AZ 1965
Ethnicity:
Maternal: Trinidadian: Chinese and African
Paternal: American: Swedish and French Canadian
2nd Language: Spanish
Education:
- Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC 2003
- California College of Arts & Crafts CCAC
- Candidate for BFA Oakland, CA 1984,1985
- Graduated Flagstaff High School 1983
Recognition:
- Flagstaff Cultural Partners Viola Award in Visual Arts 2012
- Santa Fe Photo Workshops / FAMILY 2011
- International Color Awards 2007 & 2013
- Photo District News Digital Awards 2007
- David Alan Harvey’s Emerging Photographers 2007
RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS, INTERNSHIPS & MENTORS:
- 2007 -2011 Residency Spencer and Emi MacCallum Center for Casas Grandes Studies
- 1984-1985 Galeria De La Raza
- Jim Marshall:Sheila Metzner: Marc Hauser: Sam Abell: Nick Nichols: John Running & Sue Bennett
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
SIERRA CLUB BORDERLANDS Tucson, AZ
Lens on the Border: Fall 2016
Creative Resistance from the Eyes of Four Borderlands Photographers Group Show
MUSEO DE NOGALES Nogales, Sonora Mexico
Festival Internacional “Unidos por el Arte” 2016
Cuba, Venezuela, México y Estados Unidos.
RAICES DE TALLER GALLERY Tucson, AZ
Monsoon Show AUGUST 2016
MEXICAN CONSULATE Nogales, AZ 2016
Song for the Desert The Land and the People
CENTRE POMPIDOU Paris, France
Amexica The Human Toll of the Wall
Visual Presentation – Oct 2015
MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA Flagstaff, AZ
Trappings of the West 2016, 2015, 2014
GALERIA DE LA RAZA San Francisco, CA
Womxn Are Perfect! Group Show Spring 2016
PHIPPEN MUSEUM Prescott, AZ
The West through the Lens 2014, 2015
Trappings of the West 2013
DESERT CABALLERO MUSEUM Wickenburg, AZ
Cowgirls with a Camera Invitational show 2013, 2015
RAICES DE TALLER GALLERY Tucson, AZ
Group Show January 2013
FLAGSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER Flagstaff, AZ
Nepantla, Solo exhibit Fall 2012
COCONINO CULTURAL PARTNERS Flagstaff, AZ
Beyond Borders: The Land, The People & the Fence Fall 2012
PHIPPEN MUSEUM Prescott, AZ
Trappings of the West 2011, 2012
FLAGSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER Flagstaff, AZ
Solo exhibit :Suenos de Aztlan, Aug-Sept 2010
SCOTLAND, HANNAH MACLURE CENTRE
The University of Abertay’s Hannah
For The Love of the Game 2009
SMITHSONIAN TRAVELING EXHIBITS
Lasting Light; 125 Years of Grand Canyon
Photography 2008-2010
MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CULTURES
Casas Grandes,Chihuahua, Mexico
Festival De Paquime 2008
MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA Flagstaff, AZ
Trappings of the West 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
FLAGSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER Flagstaff, AZ
Solo show : Lagrimas De Luz : Tears of LIght 2007
KOLB STUDIO SOUTH RIM Grand Canyon, AZ
Lasting Light; 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography 2006
PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE SQUARE Flagstaff, AZ
Retablos of Hope with Mountain School 2005
HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT
Abrams Art Center New York, NY
Who is the Virgin of Guadalupe? 2001
SHONTO RUNNING GALLERY Flagstaff, AZ 2001-2003
COCONINO CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Regional Photo Show Flagstaff, AZ 1989
ALTERNATIVE MUSEUM
Dia De Los Muertos Invitational
New York, NY 1987
EYE GALLERY
La Mission 3rd Annual 94110 Show
San Francisco, CA 1986
GALLERIA DE LA RAZA
Women Artists Invitational
San Francisco, CA 1985
SF CAMERAWORKS GALLERY
San Francisco, CA Student exhibition 1985
MISSION CULTURAL CENTER
San Francisco, CA
- U.S. Against Apartheid 1985
- U.S. Out of Central America 1984
CAMERA CARD CORRAL Flagstaff AZ 1981
First photography solo exhibit
SELECTED PUBLISHED WORKS & LINKS:
- Sojourn Magazine
- Excelente Iberia Airlines
- Enviva Magazine Avianca Airlines
- High Country News
- The Better Bombshell Book Essay with Craig Childs
- Volleyball Magazine
- ORION Magazine
- The Renaissance of Mata Ortiz DVD art
- YES Magazine
- VISION Youth Magazine / China
- Grand Canyon Plant Guide
- Arizona Highways
- Lasting Light: 125 years of Grand Canyon Photography
- Grammy Nominated CD ART:
Canyon Records Burning Sky Voices on the Wind
- There’s This River: Grand Canyon Photography
- Quincy Troupe author portrait
- Boatman Stories Anthology
- Missing Mary, Charlene Spretnak
- British Telegraph
- British GQ
- James Lee Burke author portrait
- Pro Rodeo
- Techno WarFare
- Newsweek Japan
- NewAge Sedona
- Polo Magazine
- Smithsonian Air and Space
LINKS:
ISSUU: PUBLISHED WORK
Dreams of Aztlan Solo Exhibition
KNAU: Connect AZ to Mexico interview
Editorial: Exhibit Review
Vision China May 2009.Largest Publication in China
Photo Essay 30 page / 6000 word essay on Chihuahua, Mexico.
http://issuu.com/rmrunning/docs/chihuahua-7
Sojourn Magazine Grand Canyon Association July 2008, 2009, 2014
Photo collages and essay explore the connections of the ancient cultures
between Northern Arizona’s Colorado plateau and Northern Mexico’s
Casas Grandes and Mata Ortiz,Chihuahua.
http://issuu.com/rmrunning/docs/sojourn_36-45
Photo, Illustration, Writing and Design:
RAEchel’s first memories were looking at pictures in the book Family of Man and the Vietnam War on a black and white TV. Raised on Dektol in the darkroom she began shooting Tri-X at the age of 15 in High School. Running inherited a lifetime love for the “picture and the word” and community engagement from her family and community of artists, scientists, Native cultures and environmental movements influenced her lens on the world growing up on the Colorado Plateau and later when she lived for five years in Chihuahua, Mexico.
RAEchel, a freelance arts activist, works as a cultural and environmental ambassador and educator and seasonal Grand Canyon river guide. When she’s not running around the west, or shooting the rapids, she hangs her hat in Tucson’s Barrio Viejo and shares a studio and library in the Historic Labor Temple. A published freelance photographer for over thirty years RAEchel’s work has been internationally recognized and exhibited. History, travel, books, archives and people’s stories inspire Raechel’s work. She continues to explore beyond the radius of the Greater Southwest, traveling from the Grand Canyon to the Peruvian Amazon, the Caribbean and the US/Mexico Borderlands. Like the spices of the cultural diverse landscapes she photographs, her imagery reflects her interests in the human condition, social and environmental issues and the cultural histories of the Americas. Her documentary and fine art photo based collages explore the cycles of life and death, migrations and the spiritual threads that connect us to our humanity and wildlands.
RAEchel’s work connects people to people and communities, backyards and wildlands. She take viewers on visual journeys beyond personal and national borders. She believes art is the media can foster kindredness and stewardship between people and our relationship to our world and a hopeful and sustainable future.
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