Statement

Everything in life is impermanent and always changing. Instead of denying this impermanence, I work alongside it and embrace it within my art practice. Drawing from personal experiences, I am interested in this transience in relation to notions of memory and everyday life. My current work thinks through questions about transformation and presence through various projects that depend upon the materiality of the glass, the glass-working process, and glass-working phenomena. I want to know how to capture a fleeting moment. By utilizing glass and its inherent material characteristics, I create new methods to document and expose the impermanence of life.

Bio

Rachael Strittmatter grew up in the outskirts of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where she obtained her Associate of Arts degree from Harrisburg Area Community College in 2016. Her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and she has had international residencies in Japan and the Czech Republic. She has held teaching assistant positions at Corning Museum of Glass as well as Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Rachael completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in May 2020. Since then, Rachael has been focused on building her brand of barware, home décor, and jewelry in Pittsburgh, PA. When she isn’t in the studio, she can be found doing almost anything outside, cooking, or snuggling with her hairless cat.