Rachel Nelson

Rachel Aurora received her B.A. in Studio Art and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College (2018) and currently lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her debut solo exhibition, “A Second Look: Pinecones and Birch through Portraiture” opened in her hometown of Claremont, NH in April 2019 in the John D. Bennett Atrium Gallery of the Claremont Opera House. Her paintings have also been featured in the 26th Annual Student Show of the Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA and the Intercollegiate Regional of the The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY.

While at Middlebury, her work was published in The Birch at Columbia University and in Blackbird Student Magazine at Middlebury College. She conducted several group exhibitions at Middlebury on topics ranging from feminism and science to human ecology.

She has an avid interest in food systems reform, ecological justice and healing, and regenerative agriculture.

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• Middlebury College - Middlebury VT, 2019
• Arts at the Armory - Somerville MA, 2019
• John D. Bennett Atrium Gallery, Claremont Opera House - Claremont, NH, 2019
• Copley Society of Art - Boston MA, 2018
• The Arts Center of the Capital Region - Troy NY,

• Middlebury College, BA in Environmental Studies and Studio Art - Middlebury, VT,2018