Natalie Raskin
Teaching Artist
Natalie Raskin (she/they) is a painter, bookmaker, writer, and educator raised and living in Brooklyn, New York. She builds worlds out of loneliness and alter-egos. Across mediums, storytelling functions in mapping feelings and finding places of belonging for strange and awkward dreams. Natalie has been working in socio-emotional education settings since 2019, and develops individualized making and writing experiments with students to support them in developing autonomy with different forms of language. They are interested in instilling a sense of wonder and curiosity in students as they learn through multiple modalities, and aim to establish the ideas of process and archiving as being valuable to the experience of being in school and in community with others. Natalie received BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and her MFA in Studio Art at Queens College/Social Practice CUNY. She is currently making sculptural paintings and thinking about participatory reading, playing with the ways in which the art book can be community-facing, visually engaging, and a tool for learning.