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Graduate Studies Division
Art Department
MFA Candidate - Environmental Art and Social Practice
Graduate
Art Department
Tyler Rai is an interdisciplinary artist, ritualist, and creative producer who works across live performance, narrative essays, and experimental sound works. She draws connections between grief and mourning practices, biological and cultural inheritances, geologic time, and ecological change to reveal the poetic entanglements between spirituality, mythology, embodied experience, and earth's ecological systems.
Rai’s performance work has been presented at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Governors Island, ARC Pasadena, Judson Church, SPACE Gallery, and The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. She has received support from the Assets for Artist MA Capacity Building Grant, American Geophysical Union, Northampton Arts Council, South Hadley Cultural Council, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She has been an artist-in-residence at Bennington College, UMASS Amherst, Earthdance, The Sable Project, and Works on Water on Governors Island. Lectures about her work in the arts and sciences have been given to students at The Governor’s Institute of the Arts, UMASS Amherst, and the Land Arts of the American West program at University of New Mexico.
Her writing has been published by Arts, Letters, & Numbers, Contact Quarterly, John Hopkins Center for Humanities and Social Medicine magazine, Culturebot, MA Bibliotheque, and LOAM.
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