Rachel Johnson

Rachel (aka Olli) is a theater artist, puppeteer, book artist, crafter and musician.  She was co-founder of the Full Moon Puppet Cabaret and has worked with Bread and Puppet,  In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, Bedlam Theatre, Public Domain Productions and Barebones as well as creates her own work independently.  As a a member of the Unseen Ghost Brigade, an ensemble of clowns, she rafted down the Mississippi river performing a circus-influenced river history ghost story to communities along the river.   Rachel is currently a teaching artist at Articulture and plays ukulele/vocals in the band The New Mississippi MudSteppers.  She studies community-based theater in beloved Minneapolis at Goddard College and spends a lot of time with kids!  Hooray. 

Rachel revels in the insatiable curiosity of children. She supports the learning process for students of all levels through a fun, yet structured, learning environment.  Through play and creativity students can gain the skills needed to trust their own artistic voice and learn the joys of working with others. She has been working at Articulture for 3 years and LOVES the opportunity to join in the creative process with others through teaching.

Her artistic specialties include: kinetic art, pop-up mechanics, paper engineering, book-binding, toy theater, puppetry.

Past classes include:

Visual Storytelling

Printmaking 

Art Car   

Kinetic Art: kites, gears, stick bombs, cup towers, chain reactions,

Introduction to Bookbinding

Adaptive 

Birthday Parties