Baker Artist Portfolios

Rachel Stein is an artist and educator based in Baltimore, Maryland. She creates video, photography, sound, and interactive sensory environments to activate the mind through curiosity and play.  Her interest in the connection between tactile experiences and inner states of being has inspired her to consider ways of reframing the body in relation to everyday materials, particularly synthetic materials.  With the pervasiveness of synthetics in our lives, she's reconsidering how meaning is embedded into objects and how our bodies can relate them in novel ways. She invites viewers to question their own consumer reality and relationship with pleasure through sensory stimuli.