Rachel Dorn

(American, born 1980)

Rachel Dorn is a ceramic artist and art instructor at Yakima Valley College in Yakima, Washington. She creates abstract sculptural forms inspired by plant forms and aquatic life that are at once familiar and strange. She also creates ceramics that are a reaction to recent political and social themes, such as her politics bulbs installations, scream mugs, and COVID balls, mugs, and planters. Her pieces are all meant to invite touch, and they are designed to be handled.

Dorn earned a Master of Fine Art degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006. She moved to Yakima later that year to run the ceramic studio at Yakima Valley College and teach classes.