NEWS, EVENTS, AND PRESS

Gertrude Press is featuring me in their 30th Issue as a cover artist and in a Q & A. Here is a link to the Q & A:

https://www.gertrudepress.org/rachel-trusty-qa.html

All of my work is finally back home from the summer shows.   I live in a tiny apartment so it is time for an end of summer sale!

All original paintings are on sale from August 1st - September 31st. I have also added some postcards and some new original fiber pieces to t...

Summer Crush, my solo exhibition of work from the Friends and Lovers Series, opened at the Lawrence Arts Center on June 28th from 5 - 9pm. The opening event correlated with Lawrence's downtown Final Friday art walk. Three other exhibitions at the arts center also opene...

I’m wrapping up my two weeks at the Arts, Letters, and Numbers Artist (ALN) Residency in Averill Park, NY and it has been a wonderful time. ALN accepts visual artists, musicians and composers, performance artists and writers. Residents can choose to stay one week to up...

I'm heading to the Arts, Letters, & Numbers Artist Residency in Albany, NY for the next few weeks so the shop will be closed until June 17th.

Follow my Instagram @ratrusty for images and videos of my experience there. I will post a follow-up on the blog when I'm back.

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Article over Friends and Lovers solo show at Resident Arts Gallery in Vox Magazine by writer Brooke Johnson. Click image or link below to read the whole article.

"Artist, educator and curator Rachel Trusty might be based in Lawrence, Kansas, but she doesn't let her root...

The Friends and Lovers series opens in a solo exhibition at the Resident Arts Gallery in Columbia, MO.

 The exhibition will be up through mid-April and is free to attend. It features 20 pieces from the series.

I will be participating in two shows soon - one group exhibition and one solo exhibition.

The group exhibition, "The Love Show," will open this Friday January 25th from 5 - 9 pm at the Percolator Gallery here in Lawrence, KS. The show will be up until the end of Februar...

Rachel Trusty's article "Feminine Gestures: Challenging Objecthood through White and Black Feminist Performance Art" has been published in volume 3, issue 4 of the International Journal of Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts.

The article and journal ar...

 "One Year Down" opening reception Jan. 19th, 2018.

The "Two Years Too Many" Political Exhibition is scheduled for Jan. 18th and 19th in Little Rock as a follow-up to the "One Year Down" exhibit that was held last year. The pop-up exhibition will be held at the New Deal...