Rachel Crockett Smith

RACHEL CROCKETT SMITH, an Arizona native, is an abstract artist whose work is informed by color. She has exhibited in museums and galleries primarily on the East Coast and in the Mountain West. Rachel received a BFA in Painting and Drawing at Brigham Young University in 2007. She discovered her passion for teaching art to children while artist-in-residence at the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum, where she first taught art workshops in 2018. Since then, she has continued working as a teaching artist, and for the past year as Education Manager for the Shenandoah Arts Council. In 2022, Rachel was awarded the Innovate + Create Grant by Teaching Artists of the Mid-Atlantic. She lives in the Winchester area with her husband, four daughters, and two dogs.