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Rachel Dressler

Growing Up in the Shadow of the Mountain

August 10, 2020 By Rachel Dressler 1 Comment

Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial features three 76 ft tall equestrian figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson carved into the northern slope of a 1600-plus high hunk of quartz monzonite dome monadnock. I grew up in its shadow.

Tattooing Loss

July 17, 2017 By Rachel Dressler 4 Comments

Fourteen years ago I started doing something totally out of character, I began riding horses. Four years later I bought the horse who had been teaching me to ride, Baghera de Beaupré, a beautiful dark bay, Selle Français mare.

The Problematic of Things

July 21, 2016 By Rachel Dressler Leave a Comment

Recently, while on a trip to Istanbul, I fell and shattered my knee. I ended up having surgery there and, thanks to my husband’s Herculean efforts, am now back in the States coping with recovery.

Embracing the Fog

January 24, 2016 By Rachel Dressler Leave a Comment

In the light of recent events, The Material Collective would like to affirm the following about our work to reform art history, medieval studies, and academia in general.

Competition or Collaboration?

June 24, 2015 By Rachel Dressler Leave a Comment

I have been reading, and re-reading, Why the Middle Ages Matter, and I sense an underlying theme to several of the essays, namely the importance of community.

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