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, politics, and issues related to colonization, social justice, and environmental justice.
Rachel is the recipient of the James Renwick Alliance 2021 Chrysalis Award for emerging artists. She has taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), Peters Valley School of Craft (NJ), Appalachian Center for Craft (TN), the New Agrarian School (MT), and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (IL).
She organized and curated Nu Iron Age (2017) and Meta-Formation (2019–2020). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions and has been featured in American Craft Magazine, Metalsmith Magazine, and Ironwork Today 4.
Her work is included 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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