About the Item

Pollination Salt Cellar

Forged, formed, fabricated and machined. Stainless steel with bronze.

About the Artist

Rachel David is a blacksmith, sculptor, and designer. Her metalwork practice encompasses art, furniture, architectural elements, activism, and gardening. Through community activism and metalwork that references relationships between bodies and landscapes, David investigates issues related to colonization, social, and environmental justice. Rachel is the recipient of the James Renwick Alliance 2021 Chrysalis award for emerging artists. She taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), Peters Valley School of Craft (NJ), Appalachian Center for Craft (TN), the New Agrarian School (MT), and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (IL). Rachel organized and curated Nu Iron Age in (2017) and Meta-Formation (2019- 2020). She has exhibited work nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been included in several publications, including American Craft Magazine, Metalsmith magazine, and Ironwork Today 4. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian's Renwick gallery, the City of New Orleans, the Simone Benetton Foundation, and in numerous private collections.

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