About the Artist

 

Kimberly “Kimmie” Rachelle

 

I have always been both an artist and a doer.

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My life has taken me through many chapters... raising children, building a career, returning to college later in life, navigating unexpected challenges, serving my community, starting my own business, and continually finding my way back to creativity.

Through all of it, art has been a constant.

 

I studied fine art at Montara State and Chico State before life took me in other directions. Years later, I returned to Chico State and earned my degree in Project Management and Consulting, bringing together two sides of myself that once seemed very different: the creative dreamer and the person who knows how to make things happen.

Today, those worlds are beautifully intertwined.

 

I am an artist, creative educator, entrepreneur, and community arts advocate. I create my own work, teach children to explore the extraordinary story of art through Art of Life, and host Creative Unwind, experiences designed to give adults time and space to slow down, make something with their hands, and reconnect with their own creativity.

 

My connection to the Chico arts community has also shaped me deeply. Over the years, I have served as Chair of the Chico Arts Commission, President of the monca Board of Directors, a California Arts Council grant panelist, and a longtime member of the Healing Art Gallery Committee at Enloe Cancer Center.

 

I believe art belongs in our everyday lives.

 

It helps us notice. It helps us wonder. It gives us a way to make meaning from our experiences and to see ourselves, one another, and the world a little differently.

 

My own life has taught me not to wait for the perfect time to create, dream, begin again, or become more fully yourself.

 

So I keep making things. I keep dreaming things up. I keep gathering people around tables to create. And I keep looking for the beauty, wonder, gratitude, and possibility tucked into ordinary life.

 

That is the kind of life I want to make art about... and the kind of life I hope to encourage others to live.