Rae Red
-Rae Hample- Baltimore, MD
raered.com – raeredart@gmail.com
Education
Towson University, Towson, MD May 2020 MFA, Theatre Arts
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY May 2014 BA, Studio Arts
Grants/Awards
2024 Rubys Artists Grant Recipient, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
2023 Free Fall Baltimore Production Grant
2023 Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize Semifinalist
2022 Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant
2022 Maryland State Arts Council Professional Development Grant
2021 Maryland Institute College of Art Adjunct Faculty Professional Development Grant
2021 Maryland Institute College of Art Adjunct Faculty Professional Development Grant
2021 Maryland State Arts Council Artist Grant
2019 Kaplan Foundation Research Grant
2008 Comcast Leaders and Achievers Award
Residencies
2021 MacDowell Colony Fellowship/Residency
2025 Studios at Mass MOCA Residency (upcoming)
2025 PLAYA at Summer Lake (upcoming)
2025 Vermont Studio Center (upcoming)
2024 Chop Wood Carry Water Residency, Nominated Fellow
2024 Harford School, Artist in Residence
2023 Art Farm Nebraska Residency
2023 Studios at Mass MOCA Residency
2022 Art Farm Nebraska Residency
2021 Art Farm Nebraska Residency
2020-2021 Shelter Elsewhere Performance Fellow, Elsewhere, Living Museum and Artist Residency
2019 Performance Fellow at AFDA Johannesburg, South Africa
Tours
2023 “Future’s Future” Mid-West/Mid Atlantic /South West Tour, 7 cities, USA
2022 “I’m a Ghost and So are You” Mid-West/Mid Atlantic Tour, 7 cities, USA
2020 “Song Truck” tour of Baltimore, MD
2019 “Shadow Ballads” East Coast Tour, 10 Cities, USA/Canada
2018 “Color Wheel” West Coast Tour, 17 Cities, USA
2017 “Water: A Dispatch from the Bottom of the Tub” US Tour, 16 Cities, USA
2016 “Honey: The Story of Bees” US Tour, 15 Cities, USA
2015 “Cowgirl: A Western” Southwest Tour, 4 Cities, USA
2014 “Are Different Darks Different?” 700-mile bicycle tour, 5 States, USA
Press
“What Rises and Falls Out of Sight”, feature for Chinati Weekend, Big Bend Sentinel, October 7, 2023
“Studio Visit with Performance Artist Rae Red”, by Jay Sanborn, The Coastal Post, February 10, 2022
“If Politics Is Public Storytelling, Then Puppet Theater Is a Natural Political Medium” Indy Week Article, BY BYRON WOODS, SEP. 24, 2019
Behold the “Color Wheel”, Moab Sun News, August 1, 2018
Performance Artist Rae Red on Shadow Puppets, Color Wheels, and Beekeeping, Pheonix New Times, ASHLEY NAFTULE, JUNE 28, 2018
“Rae Red Tells Stories of the West Using Shadows and Light” for West Texas Talks, Marfa Public Radio by Anna Rose MacArthur, May 18, 2015
Publications
2022- “Sometimes We Burst with Stars”, poem, Trying Times Fall issue
2022 “Does it Feel Good to Die?”, poem and artwork in Field Notes, by Sense of Press
2021- “Quaranzine”, artwork and poetry contributor, Elsewhere Press
2020- “Non- Traditional Artist Run Spaces”, author, Number 101
2018- Marfa Myths “Marfa Zine,” artwork featured, Ballroom Marfa
2017- “Stay Golden”, a Desert Surf Films ‘zine,”, artwork featured, Ballroom Marfa
exhibitions
2024
-“Precipice Portal” video loop, “Off The Web” Baker Artists Group Show
-“Paradise Portals 3×2 Grid”, Night Owl Gallery Group Show
– “Prairie Portals Grid”, Current Space 20th Anniversary Group Show
-“Precipice Portal”, for “The Abundance” curated by Rui Jang,
-“Futures Future”, solo performance, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, Rhizome, Washington DC, 2640
Space, Baltimore, MD, The Mudlark Theater, New Orleans, LA, Bingo Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2023
-“Florror Show” group show, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
- “Futures Future” for “What Rises and Falls Out of Sight”, installation and performance, group show, Institute for Material Interpretation, Marfa, TX
- Installation and solo performance, Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize Semifinalist Exhibition, -Meyerhof Gallery, Baltimore, MD
-“Feralpy” performance, Flux Factory, Governor’s Island NYC,
-“House Show” performance, Charlottesville Puppetry Festival, Visible Records, Charlottesville, VA
– Hoesy Corona’s “Hacia la Vida” [performance],Choreographer/performer, Tephra ICA Festival, Reston, VA, curated by Paul Douglas Michnewicz,
2022
-“Queer Futures Past”, Lead Artist and Director, month long installation and performance series, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
-“Could Have Been Someone” lead performer, Skye Forte MFA Exhibition, Towson Studio Theatre, Towson, MD.
2021
-“Red is Real (Red Ballad)”, director, actor, animator, musician, Towson University, Towson, MD
-“14 Karat Cabaret Retrospective”, performance, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
-“It’s Ok for Dreams to Die”, Current Space Gallery, Baltimore, MD
-“STUFFED”, Cucalorus Film festival, Wilmington, NC
-“Shelter Elsewhere Final Showcase”, virtual performance, and screening, Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
2020
-“Wish You Were Elsewhere”, installation, Greensboro Project Space,: exhibition, Greensboro, NC
-“Sidewalk Serenades”, outdoor performance series, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
-“Apartscape”, Solo performance, Baltimore , MD
-“Red Ballad”, Lead Artist, Actor, Animator, Baltimore, MD
-“World in a Box: DC’s Festival of Cajas and Crankies,”, performance, Washington D.C.
2019
-“American Heifer”, collaborative performance, The Drawing Room, Cape Town, South Africa
“Cucalorus Stage Festival”, performance, Wilmington, NC
-“Performance Night”, Hole Gallery, Baltimore, MD
-“Radicakalacky, Festival”, Paper Hand Puppet Intervention, Durham, NC
-”8 Short Plays”, Actor, Mercury Theatre, Baltimore, MD
-“Marfa Live Arts, Guest Teaching Artist”, Performance Storytelling, Marfa, TX
– “Kate Bush: Slo-mo Glam Drag”, Dryer MFA Lab and The Undercroft, Baltimore, MD
-“Mass Rabble”, Ensemble member, Submersive Productions, Baltimore, MD
-“Henry Lee”, performance, Black Cherry Puppet Theatre, Baltimore, MD
-“One Night Stand”, reading as “Fuckboy #2” , Interrobang Theatre Company, Baltimore, MD
2018
-“Paradise Tour”, Poetry and Performance, Kelly St. Gallery, Marfa, TX
-“Resolana” performance commissioned by Joanna Keene Lopez, Factory on 5th, Albuquerque, NM
-“Love and Information” by Caryl Churchill, Directed by Rob Weiner, Actor, Crowley Theatre, Marfa, TX
2017
-“Dirty Gay Movie Night” with poet Eileen Myles, Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Myths, Marfa, TX
-“3rd Annual Spook Show” in collaboration with Michael Serwich, MSA Gallery, Marfa, TX
-“Spook Show” in collaboration with Michael Serwich, The Vortex Theater, Austin, TX
-“Bed Talks, Mouthpiece Performance Festival”,
-“Mouthpiece Performance Festival”, performance, Tricklock Theatre, Albuquerque, NM
-“It’s There For You” by Nalu Gruschkus, as “Rose Anne”, Crowley Theater, Marfa, TX
-“Beacons” by G. Escobar, staged reading as “Penelope”, Crowley Theater, Marfa, TX
2016/2015
-“Honey Show Pt.1”, The Adobe Room, Marfa, TX
-“Shadow Anatomy”, Group Exhibition, Marfa Studio of Arts, Marfa, TX
-‘Día De Los Muertes” Halloween Show, Building 98, Marfa, TX
-“Basement Films’ 11th Annual A/V Show”, ASUNM Southwest Film Center, Albuquerque, NM
-“Tribute to Time”, ESP TV screening, Marfa TX
2014
Cowgirl: A Western, Debut at Badger Claw Castle, Oakland, CA
Dance of Breath, Bard College, Red Hook, NY
2013
Moon Shadows, Group Exhibition, UBS, Red Hook, NY
Bats, Group Exhibition, UBS, Red Hook, NY
Born from Bees, Group Exhibition, UBS, Red Hook, NY
Tribute to Time, group screening, Bard College, Red Hook, NY
One-A-Day, group exhibition, The Tan Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2012
August 21, The Rhino and the Bee, Grow Farm, Albuquerque, NM
July 4, Ansell Family Puppet Show, Canterbury, England
Performance Projects
Rae Red, Baltimore, MD 2012 – Present
Multimedia Performance Project – Develop performances and tour annually. Perform solo and collaborative spectacles using video, stop-action animation and song.
Marfa Live Arts Marfa, TX August 2015- June 2019
Actor, Puppeteer, and Educator – Actor, puppeteer, and educator in various MLA productions, readings and workshops.
Hag Society, Brooklyn, NY December 2013-February 2015
Founder, Puppeteer, and Performer – Monthly performance at Bizarre Bushwick in Brooklyn, NY. Collaborated with many visual artists, dancers, musicians, and actors.
Petal Puppets, Krumville, NY December 2013- Feb 2015
Puppeteer and Producer – Coordinated a collaborative month-long residency followed by bicycle powered tour of the Northeastern United States, performing shadow puppet shows for all ages and maintaining a travel blog.