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

THE NOISE: Sign of the Times

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.