Rachel E. Church is an intermedial artist, book artist, and printmaker working in Maine. She has a BA in Art with a concentration in Printmaking and Entrepreneurial Studies, a BFA in Studio Art with a minor in Book Arts, both from the University of Southern Maine, and an MFA in Intermedia from the University of Maine. In 2025, she earned a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Maine. Her dissertation work focused on identifying and analyzing intermedia work in the space between cookbooks and artists’ books through the lens if intermediality and feminist research methodologies. Additional career highlights include selection as Artist in Residence at Baxter State Park in 2018 and Maine Media Workshops + College in 2022, inclusion in the 2021 Untitled, 2020: Art from Maine in a ______ Time juried biennial exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art, publication of “Cooking Up Maine History: Sense of Place and Community Cookbooks” in Maine History in 2023, and the 2023 Baxter Society Grand Prize in Book Arts for Women of Windy Hill.
In addition to her interdisciplinary art and research practice, she works as an instructional designer with a focus on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and digital accessibility, teaches art courses and workshop, and enjoys traveling, cooking, camping, hiking, and sewing.
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