RACHEL D. LODGE
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In my current artwork, I have been exploring the carbon cycle, the planetary process that underlies both our climate system and all of life.  I’ve been experimenting with hand-drawn, science-based images and animation sequences that explore how carbon moves through natural systems via photosynthesis, carbon cycling in the ocean (e.g., through plankton, krill, whales), exchange of carbon and oxygen through trees; even the human breath and our own bodies—all phenomena that we can’t see without an imaginative assist because they’re too big, too small, too slow, too fast, or too far away from us in space or in time to actually perceive directly.  
 
My earlier figurative work, primarily drawing and painting on paper and small painted sculpture, has explored human characters and human emotion.  

I am also a policy professional and strategic communicator  whose work has focused primarily on support for low income children and families, and more recently on the environment.   I live and work in Seattle, Washington. 



WORK
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2021    Transfigurations: Carbon Flow.  Jack Straw Cultural Center New Media Gallery, Seattle, Washington 

2020    Carbon Storylines 1.1  Museum of Northwest Art Outside-In Gallery, La Conner, Washington

2020    Carbon Storylines 1.1.  Washington Department of Ecology, Bellevue, Washington

2019     Carbon Storylines 1.1.  Seward Park Audubon Center, Seattle, Washington


2018     Carbon Storylines.  University of Washington Botanic Garden, Elizabeth C. Miller Library,
             Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle, Washington 


2007    Imagined Men. 
 Edmonds Community College, Edmonds, Washington


VIDEO/ANIMATION 
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2018      "Inhale/Exhale," 7.5-minute hand-drawn animated video
               SHOWN:
               
Discovery Park, Seattle, WA, opener for Discover Arts in the Park's Symphony for Climate Change, August 17, 2019
               Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA, "Curiosity Days: Climate Change," March 1-3, 2019
​               "Surge 2018," Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, October 6, 2018-January 6, 2019
          

2015     “Carbon Meditation/Returning to Balance,” 5-minute hand-drawn animated video
              https://vimeo.com/129693978
              SHOWN:
              MoPop, Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, WA, Creativity Camps for Kids, Summer 2017
              Lincoln Options Elementary School, grades 4-5, Olympia, WA, June 11, 2016
              Living Future UnConference keynote session, Seattle Westin Hotel, WA, May 13, 2016
              Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, WA, “You Discuss It: Climate Change” panel, March 2, 2016
              Cascadia Climate Collaborative Retreat, Whidbey Institute,  April 2015
 
2014      “Biocarbon:  Mobilizing the Power of Nature to Restore Our Climate,” 7.5 minute hand-drawn animated video, 
                Created pro bono for  Climate Solutions, Seattle, WA,  
               http://climatesolutions.org/programs/nbi/biocarbon-video
               SHOWN:
               21 Acres Center for Sustainable Living, harvest festival, Woodinville, WA,  September 24, 2016                         
               Science Cafe, “The Art of Explaining Science,” Olympia, WA, September 13, 2016 

 
Group Exhibitions 

2018     Surge 2018, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington
​             (co-sponsored by Skagit Climate Science Consortium)

2015      Invited images for Cascadia Climate Collaborative conference,  Whidbey Institute, Clinton, WA

 
2013     First Light,  Inaugural regional exhibition for opening of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art,
              Bainbridge Island, WA.
 Juror:  Barbara Earl Thomas
 
2000    California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, California. Award of Merit. 
              Juror: Patricia Wall, Professor of Art, Cosumnes River College
 
2000     Yosemite Renaissance XV, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park, California. 
               Jurors:  Harvey  Jones, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum of California, and Roger C. Birt, Professor of  
               Humanities,
 San Francisco State University
 
1999      California Small Works 1999, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California. Judge's award. 
               Juror:  John Natsoulas, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
 
1997    Watermarks, benefit for the Nature Conservancy's Cosumnes River Preserve, Sacramento, California
 
1997    Phoenix,  Sacramento Arts Commission, Sacramento, California
 
1996    Phoenix, Sacramento Arts Commission, Sacramento, California
 
1995     Death and Transformation, Phantom Galleries/Sacramento Women Artists and
              Writers, Sacramento, California


RESIDENCIES

           Pacific Science Center artist in residence, January-May 2020
             PLAYA, Summer Lake, OR, July 2-13, 2018
         
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, November 21-30, 2011
          Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, September 20-29, 2009


EDUCATION 
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1995    UC Davis Summer Certificate in Painting and Drawing
            (with Cornelia Shultz  and Margaret Harrison)
 
1987    Master of Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin
            Claudia Taylor Johnson Fellow, 1985-1987

1981     A.B., University of California, Berkeley, with Honors in History

 
 



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