Artist Talk with Rachel Eng

Coinciding with her exhibition, From there to here, visiting artist Rachel Eng will host an artist talk on Wednesday, September 2, at 5:00pm  in the Lower Traylor Gallery. This event is free and open to the public. An opening reception with refreshments and snacks will be available after the talk. No RSVP required.

Rachel Eng is a visual artist working primarily in installation and sculpture whose work draws from the writings of scientists, activists, and creatives like Max Liboiron, Dina Gilo-Whitaker, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lauret Savoy, and Anna Tsing who discuss the interconnectedness of non-human life forms and humans. Eng is interested in the agency of materials and their reciprocal impacts on human behaviors and how this connects to land use/development and climate change. Projects often utilize video mapped projections, clay, and sound.

Eng received her MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder and her BFA from Pennsylvania State University. Eng has shown her work in solo exhibitions at NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY; 2025), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA; 2023), The Springfield Museum of Art (Springfield, OH; 2023), Jane Hartsook Gallery (NYC, NY; 2022), and Flecker Gallery (Long Island, NY; 2020).  She has held residencies at McColl Center (Charlotte, NC), Studio Kura (Fukuoka, Japan), and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Newcastle, ME), among others. In 2021 she was awarded a Windgate Fellowship through the Center for Emerging Visual Arts in Philadelphia and a Puffin Foundation Grant.  Her work is in various private and public collections including the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art (Republic of Korea) and Peninsula College Ceramics Collection (Port Angeles, WA).  She currently lives in Carlisle, PA with her family, where she is an Associate Professor of Art at Dickinson College.

Rachel Eng: From there to here is on view in the Lower Traylor Gallery from September 2 through October 9, 2026.