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  • Rachel Urkowitz

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    urkowitr@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Rachel Urkowitz

    Profile

    Rachel Urkowitz is an artist and designer. Her paintings, sculptures and installations have been exhibited widely in the US and Europe, including solo shows at Galerie Michael Neff in Frankfurt and Michael Steinberg Fine Art and White Columns in New York, and her short stop motion animations have been shown in galleries and film festivals in the US and Europe. She is co-founder of Felt Design, NYC, a children's textile and furniture design company. Her artwork is represented by DeChiara Projects, New York.

    Degrees Held

    MFA, Painting, Hunter College

    BA, Fine Arts, Brown University

     

    Research Interests

    Pattern, textiles, furniture design, children's products

    color theory, contemporary art, art history

    Awards And Honors

    Giverny Artists Grant, The Art Production Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation (Giverny, France, 2000)

    Artists 911 Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI 2002)

    La General Foreign Artist Studio Residency (Paris, France, 2007)

     

    Portfolio

    rachelurkowitz.com

    Felt Design NYC

    Future Courses

    [LS] Integrative Studio 1
    PUFY 1002, Spring 2026

    Integrative Studio 2
    PUFY 1001, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    [LS] Integrative Studio 1
    PUFY 1002, Spring 2025

    Integrative Studio 2
    PUFY 1001, Spring 2025

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