About
Responsive to both natural and constructed environments, Rachel Reichert’s work moves between documentation and abstraction, gesturing toward landscapes that are as psychological as they are physical. Her objects and installations act as citations of place: their ruins, their entanglements, and their mythologies. A silver brooch inspired by an abandoned shack. An interactive outdoor sculpture probing fragility and belonging. A series of cast lava rocks set in silver, pulled from the earth. These works offer intimate reflections on truth-passing, fictitious geographies. Each one a referential fragment, untethered from origin yet saturated with place.
Rachel Reichert lives and works in Milwaukee, WI. Rooted in a practice of craft, her work spans jewelry, sculpture, installation, photography, and the co-creation of art spaces and ephemeral experiences. She sees art-making and place-building as inseparable, two threads of the same practice.
In 2014, she co-founded The Atlanta School, an experimental art school and residency in Atlanta, Idaho, where the mountain town became a site of collective inquiry and creative infrastructure for nearly a decade. From 2015 to 2022, she led the multi-phase restoration and public programming of the James Castle House, the historic home and studio of self-taught artist James Castle. She also oversaw the preservation and transformation of the Erma Hayman House, a historic home and cultural site rooted in Boise’s River Street neighborhood. In 2022, she joined the team at Ruth Foundation for the Arts, supporting the creation and implementation of a project space built for artist-centered initiatives nationally.
Across each of these endeavors, Reichert cultivates objects and experiences that hold memory, material, and community with equal care.