Rae is a PhD Candidate in Art + Architecture History at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on contemporary art that engages spatial politics — from rural queer ecologies to urban planning. She is currently working on a dissertation about the relationship of art, visual culture and the commons.

Rae is also the 2024-2026 Roy Lichtenstein Curatorial Fellow at the Columbus Museum of Art.

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Bubbling up with joy to share that for the next two years I will be the Roy Lichtenstein Curatorial Fellow at the Columbus Museum of Art!! This is my hometown art museum, and it feels so meaningful to return to it for this final stint of my PhD&helli
saturdays
early summer film 🍰
spring-summer cusp, in a new place, with the same precious book stack
spring pinks 🌸
still life pondered while theorizing on the phone with a friend
“Between oneself and the friend, thought emerges; the friend gives reason, meaning and consistency to thought.” (Heather Davis, Distance in Proximity: Spiral Garden, Community-based Art, and Friendship, 2015) Yield #1: The Urban Farm wa
fragments of winter, gathered between oregon, ohio and colorado
remembering rest
since I began researching the photography of lesbian lands four years ago I have been struck over and over again by how essential images were to building a new queer and feminist world: the camera was as important a tool as the hammer, the wheelbarro
A long-awaited announcement: an exhibition I’ve been working on all year is opening next week at the Wexner Center for the Arts! "Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the Womanshare Collective" is an imaginative presentation of the vis
a few good days in Paris: wearing things I made, looking at art all day, and enjoying slow meals