Rachel Stevens is a sculptor, emeritus professor of art at

New Mexico State University New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a public land-grant research university based primarily in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest public institution of higher education in New Mexico and one of the stat ...

and a

Fulbright The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people ...

Scholar. Stevens has exhibited both in the United States and internationally.

Exhibitions and installations

Stevens's public sculpture, "You are Here", is displayed at Ventanas Ranch Park, in

Albuquerque Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding i ...

, NM. Her work has been exhibited at the

Artists Space Artists Space is a non-profit art gallery and arts organization first established at 155 Wooster Street in Soho, New York City. Founded in 1972 by Irving Sandler and Trudie Grace and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Arti ...

, New York,

El Paso Museum of Art Founded in 1959, The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) is located in downtown El Paso, Texas. First accredited in 1972, it is the only accredited art museum within a 250-mile radius and serves approximately 100,000 visitors per year. A new building ...

, Siddhartha Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal, the

Boise Art Museum The Boise Art Museum (BAM) is located at 670 Julia Davis Drive in Boise, Idaho, and is part of a series of public museums and cultural attractions in Julia Davis Park. It is the permanent home of a growing collection of contemporary realism, mod ...

Albany Institute of History and Art The Albany Institute of History & Art (AIHA) is a museum in Albany, New York, United States, "dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and promoting interest in the history, art, and culture of Albany and the Upper Hudson Valley region ...

and the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY. In 2018, her work, "A Key to the City: Three Ways of Visualizing Jewish Heritage in Lviv" was exhibited at the Lviv Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. Stevens's work has interpreted the

Holocaust in Ukraine The Holocaust in Ukraine took place in the '' Reichskommissariat Ukraine'', the ''General Government'', the ''Crimean General Government'' and some areas which were located to the East of Reichskommissariat Ukraine (all of those areas were unde ...

in a series of sculptures called ''The Broken Fragments of My Heart''. They reimagine the deep ravines of Ukraine where more than a million Jews were shot during World War II by the German SS and police death squads in what became known as "Holocaust by bullet".

Fellowships

* 2018 Fulbright Scholar to Ukraine: ''A Key to the City: Three Ways of Visualizing Jewish Heritage in Lviv'' * 2006 Fulbright Scholar to Nepal: ''Sojourner for Form: Sacred Sites and Newari Metal Techniques of the Kathmandu Valley''

References

External links

Official website

Academic page at New Mexico State University
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