Classes & Workshops

I’ve been teaching classes and workshops to all ages for over ten years. I love sharing how I make everything from dream catchers to large-scale murals to jewelry and recycled arts and crafts. I’ve traveled all over the country working with diverse groups as an artist-in-residence specializing in community-based arts.

Kids showing off the art they made with Rachael at an elementary school in Vermont

An art teacher at Rachael's teacher training retreat

An art teacher from Rachael's teacher training workshop for the Vermont Art Teacher Association

For more photos of work created in my workshops, click here.

I’m available for single, full-day, and multi-day workshops on a variety of subjects:

Dream Catchers
Beginning, intermediate & advanced drawing
Painting: Watercolor, acrylic, oil pastel, etc.
Large-scale murals
Art journals, artist books & altered books
Upcylced, re-used, re-purposed, re-made, & recycled art & craft
Collage and assemblage
iPhone art & photography
Folk & indigenous arts & crafts
Paper-making, paper art
The art of animals and the natural world
Poetry, Language Arts, and visual literacy
Drug, alcohol & tobacco prevention
Curricula development for standards-based education
Creativity coaching
Art for healing & for accessing power

I have a degree in Teacher Education and am a Vermont certified and licensed art teacher. My teaching is grounded in constructivist theory, critical pedagogy, and is student-focused with an eye towards diversity and accessibility. I love working with people of all ages and abilities. I bring humor and a great spirit to all the work I do whether in a school, a housing project, a University, or a non-profit. I’m available for private instruction or a full-classroom. For more rates and information, please contact me.

“Rachael Rice was our art teacher for several years at our community-wide Summer Food and Fun Program. ‘Miss Rice’s’ classes were a kids favorite summer after summer. Unlike a school venue, our activities programming was purely elective and Miss Rice would always pack the Community Center, sometimes with as many as thirty eager children. Her ability to keep them challenged and on task was really quite remarkable. Her classes were always well prepared and very inventive; her art projects , fun and exciting; the kids were thrilled to be part of it. In addition to her formidable artistic talents perhaps Miss Rice’s greatest skill was making every student feel highly valued and special and really good about their creative abilities. Any program lucky enough to have Rachael Rice in their art room is fortunate indeed.” ~Doug Hemmings, Community and Social Services Coordinator, Highgate Apartments, Barre, VT.