Graduates 2027

Rachel Corry

I make functional sculptures for domestic spaces: lamps, textiles and books. These objects incorporate collected materials, imagery, and poetry and reflect my love of folk-craft and collage. Alongside this work, I recently started a club called Attachment to Earth which seeks to promote Ecocentrism. I hope to use Attachment to Earth to conduct novel environmental actions and to make modest art films that glorify nature and interspecies appreciation.

Rachel Corry is an artist and shoemaker. She studied Art at UCLA 2000-2004, and has spent the last 15 years making sandals and teaching shoemaking workshops under the moniker Rachel Sees Snail Shoes. She co-founded Pansy organic underwear in 2010. In 2021 she published The Sandalmaking Workshop, a guide to making your own footwear. Several years ago she began a poetry publishing project called Ultraviolet Books. Her recent curatorial efforts were Opem in Springs NY and Shoe Show in Blue Hill ME. Her pillows and lamps were featured in her solo show Appleshaped Earth in Bolinas CA in 2023, and in Dream Juice, a group show in Portland OR in 2025.

www.rachelseessnailshoes.com/art
@rachelseessnailshoes @_ultraviolet_books_

Charlie Hodes

Charlie Hodes (b. 1998) is a contemporary transmasculine and non-binary artist whose work addresses the psychological transgender experience through painting, ceramics, and mixed-media practices. Trans expression in their work is drawn from working with young children: the saturated color and cartoonish forms in Hodes’ paintings represent the soreness and openness that childhood possesses, where the pedagogy of the developing brain retains imaginative worlds within which any and all forms of expression are commonplace. As adults, this world is devastatingly forgotten and abandoned, and those truest parts of ourselves sit dusty and waiting. Hodes’ work serves as a reckoning of transness and wholeness of oneself that lives within this world. Parallel to this runs the harsh reality of transphobia and homophobia, forcing one into a persistent shifting between self-expression and censorship as a preservation of safety. Hodes’ characters embody this push-and-pull, rendering a visual landscape riddled with the realities of risk and fear inherent within the queer and trans experience. Their work allows viewers and participants to engage within a given queer experience as a temporary space in time.

Charlie Hodes grew up in California and attended Saint Mary’s College of California, earning their BA with a focus in painting and recorded performance. Since graduating in 2022, they have been a youth arts educator in Telluride, CO at the non-profit Ah Haa School for the Arts. Alongside teaching and exhibiting their work locally, Hodes has delved into performance work with Telluride Theatre, significantly informing the performative and participatory aspects of their installations and paintings. Hodes is currently an MFA candidate at UCSB, due to graduate in 2027.