Rachel Villari is an artist and educator based in Rhode Island. She has taught a wide variety of traditional studio, computer-based design and art history courses at Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education, Newport Art Museum and Johnson & Wales University.
Her abstract paintings have shown domestically and internationally, most recently in London and Bologna, Italy. Rachel is a featured artist in Curatorial Volume 1, Leaders in Contemporary Art, a book that documents the creative practices of artists working in various disciplines from around the world. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate, studying Humanities with a focus in art history and spirituality at Salve Regina University. Her dissertation will focus on the work and mediumship of early abstract artist, Hilma af Klint.