Lenscratch Features Photography Educator Rachel Boillot
Lenscratch recently highlighted Rachel Boillot, a photographic artist and educator located in the Arkansas Delta. Boillot, who received her MFA in Experimental | Documentary Arts from Duke University in 2014, published the monograph Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau in 2019. Her project Year of the Fallen Oak examines themes of place and memory. Currently teaching photography at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, AR, she is set to open a solo exhibition at the Carnegie Center of Arts & History in Jackson, TN on August 12-13, followed by another at Watkins LCVA Gallery 121 in Nashville, TN, starting November 5.
Key facts
- Rachel Boillot is a photographic artist and educator based in the Arkansas Delta.
- She earned her MFA in Experimental | Documentary Arts at Duke University in 2014.
- Her monograph Moon Shine: Photographs of the Cumberland Plateau was published in 2019.
- She won the 2017 PhotoNoLa Review Prize and her work was featured in the New Yorker.
- Her project Year of the Fallen Oak explores place, memory, intimacy, and distance.
- She teaches photography at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, AR.
- Upcoming solo exhibition at Carnegie Center of Arts & History in Jackson, TN opens Aug 12-13.
- Another solo exhibition at Watkins LCVA Gallery 121 in Nashville opens Nov 5.
Entities
Artists
- Rachel Boillot
- Roswell Angier
- Jim Dow
- Tom Rankin
- Derrick Corder
- Emma Upchurch
- Trin Reppenhagen
- Rebecca Worthington
- Savannah Sifford
- Eudora Welty
- Alex Webb
- Becky Norris-Webb
- Jason Fulford
- Gregory Halpern
- Christopher Anderson
- Sister Corita
- Yolanda Cuomo
- Sasha Wolf
- Rebecca Solnit
- Bob Fulcher
- Aaron Hardin
Institutions
- Lenscratch
- Arkansas State University
- Duke University
- Tufts University
- Museum School
- PhotoNola
- New Yorker
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Tennessee Arts Commission
- Riverview Foundation
- Southern Documentary Fund
- Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project
- Carnegie Center of Arts & History
- Watkins LCVA Gallery 121
- Aperture
- Griffin Museum of Photography
Locations
- Arkansas Delta
- Jonesboro
- Arkansas
- Cumberland Plateau
- Cumberland Gap
- Tennessee
- Kentucky
- New York
- Medford
- Massachusetts
- Durham
- North Carolina
- New Orleans
- Louisiana
- Jackson
- Nashville
- Strunk Ridge
- Pine Knot