WNC Craft Futures Cohort
2025
Rachel David is a blacksmith, sculptor, and designer. Her metalwork practice encompasses art, furniture, architectural elements, activism, and gardening. Through community activism and metalwork that references relationships between bodies and landscapes, David investigates current events and politics, issues related to colonization, and social and environmental justice.
David is the recipient of the James Renwick Alliance for Craft 2021 Chrysalis Award for emerging artists. She has taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Peters Valley School of Craft, Appalachian Center for Craft, the New Agrarian School, and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Rachel organized and curated Nu Iron Age in 2017 and Meta-Formation in 2019–2020. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been included in several publications, including American Craft, Metalsmith, and Ironwork Today 4. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, the City of New Orleans, the Simone Benetton Foundation, and numerous private collections.
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