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About Rachel Davis

Rachel was born in Snow Hill in Eastern North Carolina and earned an undergraduate degree in art at Winthrop University. She married, had two sons and a daughter and lived in the Dominican Republic for ten years before coming home to return to university. She earned a graduate degree in Art at East Carolina University and taught school at Fort Bragg for 21 years before taking early retirement to paint full time in 1994.

Rachel has worked professionally in both theater stage design and as a muralist, designing sets a number of theatres and producing murals in Fayetteville, Miami and the Dominican Republic.

She's had over forty shows in North Carolina and Florida galleries and is a contributing artist and member of Cape Fear Studios.

Blue Heart Jazz: Paintings by Rachel Davis and Poems by Sam Silva

Rachel Davis and Sam Silva

Blue Heart Jazz (detail) by Rachel Davis

MIDNIGHT CALLS A POEM Midnight calls a poem for empty prayers or empty praise and now I am alone in the shell of the dark after that bored terror of the days ...and soon I will be a bird, … [Read more...]

A Loss of Innocence: paintings by Rachel Davis

Rachel Davis

Dreamer (detail) by Rachel Davis

Artist's statement: That art brings to expression a naked spirituality without any necessary basis in religion (though religious themes are a fine tool in art as well). My favorite art was done in … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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