SHORT BIO:
Rachel Lin Weaver is an artist, writer, educator, and filmmaker. Their projects span video, installation, sound, and performance. Weaver utilizes a mix of documentary, performative, experimental film, and parafictional strategies. Recent works explore themes of memory, ecology, the nonhuman, transformation, and interdependence. Weaver’s creative and research interests relate directly to an upbringing in wilderness areas and Arctic communities, and they find many useful metaphors in the natural world.

Weaver's works have been exhibited in numerous cities in the US and in 46 countries. They have held residencies at Tulane University’s A Studio in the Woods, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the University of Utah Taft Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities, the Icelandic Textiles Center, the Nes Artist Residency, the Indiana Dunes National Park Residency, and inaugural The Weight of Mountains Filmmaking Residency.

Born in Austin, Texas in 1985, Weaver grew up between Alaska and West Virginia. Weaver holds an MFA from Indiana University Bloomington, and a BA from Berea College. Currently, Weaver serves as the Program Director for Cinema Reset, the XR, new and emerging media program of the New Orleans Film Festival. Weaver lives and works in the mountains of Appalachia, where they are an Associate Professor of Creative Technologies at the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech.