Rae Collins

Rae Collins

Eco-Feminist

Interdisciplinary Artist & Activist

Protectress:
Mother & Educator

Bio

Rae D. Collins (she/they) is an active eco-feminist and artist of various mediums. She a 2022 graduate from TWU with an MA in Dance Education and a received a BA in Communications with a focus in Public Relations (as well as a Minor in Dance) from TXST in 2007. Alongside her daughter Tinsley, she made it to “the homeland” of Oregon after 20+ years in Texas. It has been quite the adventure for Rae since her daughter was born in San Marcos, TX, in 2007, teaching and crafting designs of all kinds across the Lone Star State. It’s Rae’s truth that language does not have to be spoken to have power and art is both inter- and transdisciplinary. Rae is an art activist, but before becoming one, she was first a daughter of dance. Rae’s work sits mainly in regenerative and reciprocal forms. She continues to make with/for her daughter, Tinsley’s generation, and the generations yet to come, but she simultaneously values, believes deeply, and practices in creating multigenerational dance and art. We/They, after all, are all one, and it is a Relation. Ship. 

To water thyself, is to nurture one child; as is to equally make a flower wild again. To water one is to water the field. Nature is a given; stewardship is a must. If we take care of Mother eARTh, she will take care of us. We are Nature. Nature is us. Protection is important. Fight the good fight.

– Rae Deanna Collins


 

Past & Present

2016 TAHPERD 

K-12 Dance Educator of the Year

Rae is currently working on her screendance series ART(if)ACT.

“Act I” of that series is PETR(if)IED.
Screened in 2021:
Houston, TX | Frame X Frame Film Fest
Golden, CO | Golden Short Film Festival

ART(if)ACT

Ancestral and stolen lands of Wanapum and Yakama people.

Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, Washington State

PETR(if)IED was filmed and edited on an iPhone and was shot in present-day Vantage, WA. In this piece, Rae plays in the theories of The 6th Extinction. “If we don’t shift, and quick, will it be?” While documenting this narrative detailing her time and respective questions that arise in the Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park, a single bighorn sheep felt summoned to join in. One of many symbolisms of this power animal is adaptation in challenging situations. Will we adapt? And if so, when? How? Has our fear turned us, meaning the people, to stone? Or is it technology slowly, but surely aiding that frightened process? Will we (re)realize we are Nature before it’s too late?
Bighorn Sheep Petroglyphs

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