Rachel Harper

Rachel L. S. Harper is an artist and a teacher in Chicago.  She was awarded the 2011 Fellowship in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, MAAE) for her thesis research on the aesthetic lives of people age 0-5, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she earned the 2012 Schubert Fellowship in Curriculum Studies for her contributions to understanding arts-rich education for peace.  Rachel is headed into her seventh year leading the Teacher Institute at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and tenth year of teaching at the Art Institute museum.  She is an arts faculty member at DePaul University in the College of Education and teaches graduate research methods at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Her first edited book on education was published last month, called Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality, and her plays have been read in New York and Minneapolis.  Rachel enjoys public speaking on philosophy and has delivered more than 75 speeches on the arts and education in the past five years.