Rachelle Beaudoin

Rachelle Beaudoin serves as Professor of Practice in Digital Media and Senior Lecturer in the Visual Arts Department at the College of the Holy Cross, teaching Digital Art Studio 1, Digital Art Studio 2, and New Media courses to both art majors and non-art majors within the liberal arts curriculum.

Her educational background includes an MFA in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design and undergraduate studies at the College of the Holy Cross. She has received numerous prestigious artistic residencies throughout her career.

Beaudoin creates video, wearable, and performance art that critically examines feminist identity within popular culture, with recent work focusing on societal expectations around motherhood, pregnancy, and gender roles. Her approach combines satirical elements with profound social commentary, often using her own body and experiences as foundational material.

Her artistic output spans video installations, performance pieces, digital media experiments, and curation, with work exhibited nationally and internationally. She has developed a distinctive voice that bridges rural New England experiences with contemporary feminist discourse.

Awards and Residencies

• Fulbright Core Scholar artist-in-residence at quartier21 in Vienna, Austria (2014)
• Clowes Fund Fellow at Vermont Studio Center (2015)
• Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO (2013)
• Artist-in-residence at Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH (2019)
• Makey Makey Featured Educator (2022)

Beaudoin actively curates exhibitions, most recently organizing 'Always Be Around: Corita Kent, Community and Pedagogy' at the College of the Holy Cross's Cantor Gallery. She has been featured in NH PBS's 'Our Hometown' program (2024), documenting Berlin's unique linguistic landscape, demonstrating her ongoing engagement with regional culture and identity through artistic practice.