Mentoring…

Rachel brings 20 years of experience as an artist, self-publisher, teacher, board member and non-profit executive director to helping artists and community-based non-profits achieve their goals. Working as both an artist, volunteer board member and arts administrator is a particularly helpful background in understanding the different needs and perspectives within the creative community, and helping effectively to bridge between them.

Combining lived experience, empathy, humor, creative problem-solving, resource sharing and critical analysis, Rachel’s skills are especially helpful in the following areas:

Supporting Artists


Creative Clarity
Defining your own goals and measures of success and satisfaction within a paradigm of sustainability aligned with your values—not the external pressures and metrics of the “art world.”

Project Development

  • Early stage clarification of how to pursue a new body of work

  • Editing and completing a visual project

  • Time management and finding your process

  • Public presentation of a project in various forms

Writing for the Arts

  • Artist statements that avoid art speak while effectively telling a story

  • Adapting existing writing for specific needs, word counts, applications or proposals

  • Bios and CV’s

  • Editing

Website and Communications

  • Creating or updating a comprehensive yet practical website

  • Newsletters

  • Preparing slideshow presentations for virtual and in-person talks about your work

  • Preparing applications for opportunities

Self Publishing

  • Project conceptualization

  • Design and editing

  • Resources

  • Budgeting

  • Marketing and distribution

Additional Non-Profit Support

  • Board development and leadership

  • Program and mission clarification

  • Small non-profit systems, structures & strategies

  • Resources and problem solving

Practical Details

Support is available through virtual or in-person meetings on a sliding scale:

  • $85-$115/hour for individuals

  • $115-$145/hour for organizations

Book a recurring meeting for ongoing help, or select a more intensive chunk of time for a defined project or work happening on a deadline.

Please email Rachel to find a good time to discuss how I can help.