Vanessa Rae is an artist with a background in human rights and social justice. She is a Chicago Italian-American who has lived in Washington, DC and Brooklyn, NY while traveling internationally. She now lives in the woods of southwest Michigan, where she tends her gardens and feeds the birds. She works in simple, direct media: watercolor, ink, and hand-cut block prints. She makes art to amplify what she still finds charming in this world, creating images related to slow food, spiritual questing, and wild grace. She is dedicated to slow art - and slow food and slow fashion and other means of finding and moving from our center, connected with nature. She makes many things by hand.