RACHEL BUSE
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Sculpture Making

Rachel Buse is inspired by playgrounds, fantasies of grandeur and real estate listings. She wrestles with her materials to make large, site specific installations. Many of her works are sewn by hand. This process allows her to work intuitively as if she were drawing in space. The softness of fabric begs to be touched. It's skin-like quality evokes our familiarity with living inside the embrace of clothing.

Currently living and working in Des Moines, Iowa, Buse is the co-owner of Portrait Studio, an interactive drawing exchange between artist and sitter. She also is the Creative Director at Raygun Shirts and a Creative Strategist for Group Creatives.


PROJECTS & RESIDENCIES

Labyrinth #awpants. with Becky Beckett. Public Space One. 2023. Iowa City IA *forthcoming* 
Off The Wall. with Doug Spencer. Mainframe. 2022. Des Moines IA
Butter Cow*. AARP. Iowa State Fair. 2021. Des Moines IA
Quarantined Pet Holiday Carol Zoom Spectacular. Good Kid Rob. 2020 
Downtown DSM Hide & Seek Ornament. DSM Partnership. 2020. Des Moines IA

How to Make a Friend. PS1 Autumnal Equinox Art-a-Thon. 2020. Iowa City IA
A Very Exaggerated and Even Slower Parade. Valley Junction. Art Week 2019. Des Moines IA
Nature Vs. Nature Vs. Nature Vs. with Trey Reis. Yellow Door Gallery. 2018. Des Moines IA

Soft Space Digital Residency. 2018. Brisbane Australia
Yarn House Live. Active Participant. 2018. Boone County IA

Plop. 80/35 Music Festival. 2018. Des Moines IA
Sound and Vision. The Lift. 2018. Des Moines IA

​Map of Things No Longer Here Grin City. 2017. Grinnell IA
R & R. Moberg Gallery Downtown. 2016. Des Moines IA
We Must Arise and Act! The Residential. 2016. Des Moines IA
Pursuit of Happiness. Legion Arts. 2016. Cedar Rapids IA
Skin Show. Graceland University. 2015. Lamoni IA
Tough Art Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. 2015. Pittsburgh PA
Des Moines Social Club Viaduct Gallery Committee Member.
2014-2015. Des Moines IA
Do you belong here? Public Space One. 2014. Iowa City IA
Art on Dart. Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority Bus. 2014. Des Moines IA 
UNG. Art Vacancy. Downtown Ames. 2014. Ames IA
Big Art Series. 
Teaching Artist. Link Associates Iowa. 2014, 2015. Des Moines IA 
Art Force Iowa. Teaching Artist.
2013-2014. Des Moines IA
ASAP. Teaching Artist.
2013-2016. Des Moines IA 
Why Houses Matter. Hillyard Des Moines's White Carpet Gallery. 2013. Urbandale IA 

Sensory Overload. Whittier Building. 2012. Des Moines IA
Des Moines Art Center. Docent. 2010-2015. Des Moines IA
Femme Fatale. Instinct Gallery, Des Moines Social Club, 2009, Des Moines IA



SOLO EXHIBTIONS

The Inside. Ol Guild. 2019. Des Moines IA
Loophole. Project Project. 2019. Des Moines IA

Jungle. Grand View University. 2013. Des Moines IA
In the Middle, Out. Metropolitan Community College Gallery of Art & Design. 2013. Omaha NE
 
The Inverted Mountain. Thee EYE. 2012. Des Moines IA

Under Sheltered Landmarks. Rotunda Gallery. University of Nebraska – Lincoln. 2008. Lincoln NE 

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OTHER PROJECTS

Director of Creative. Raygun Shirts. 2018 - Present. Des Moines IA Website
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Creative Strategist. Group Creatives. 2022 - Present. Des Moines IA Website
Portrait Studio. Established 2013. Grinnell IA Website
Art Beacon Des Moines. Established 2012. Des Moines IA Website



AWARDS / RECOGNITION

2020 Iowa Arts & Culture Emergency Relief Grant Award, Iowa Arts Council
2016 Project Grant, Iowa Arts Council - LAZE Sculptural Invasion
2015 Iowa Artist Fellowship, Iowa Arts Council Video
2015 Chicken Tractor Mini Grant
​2013 Project Grant, Iowa Arts Council - In the Middle, Out



PUBLIC SPEAKING/PUBLICATIONS

Here and Gone DSM Magazine. Jan/Feb 2017.
In the Artist's Studio KCCI Des Moines's Mollie Cooney. June 16, 2013.
Rachel Buse: The Inverted Mountain. Clay Masters. March 12, 2012.
The Moment Before Making. TEDx Des Moines. July 15, 2012.
Fantasy Environments at Thee EYE. Cityview. August 16, 2012.Volume 20, No. 33. pp 61
Creating a handmade world. Juice Magazine. June 23, 2010. Volume 6, No. 25. pp 18, 20-21.



EDUCATION

University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Bachelor of Fine Art- Studio Art, 2008
Thammast University, Bangkok, Thailand, Thai Studies Program, 2006


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