Rachel Blumberg is a multi-media artist and educator who works in the fields of visual art, music, and stop motion animation. As an educator she teaches drums and general music, stop motion animation, painting, and mixed media arts to kids and adults privately, in workshops, camps, and has also worked for many public and private schools and non-profits. She was in inaugural drum instructor at the first first Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, Oregon in 2001 and has since been very active with the organization, championing equality in music for all humans. She has written articles for various publications including Tom Tom magazine. As a musician she has performed, toured and recorded with many widely acclaimed artists including The Decemberists, M. Ward, Bright Eyes, Califone, Norfolk & Western, Laura Gibson, Death Vessel, Tara Jane O'Neil, Michael Hurley and many more, as well as composing and performing her own music. As a stop motion animator she has created shorts and music videos for Nada Surf, Tom Hagerman (Devotchka), and Musee Mechanique among others. Rachel spent 2012 until 2020 living in Rhode Island, where she developed and ran a drumming and musical arts education business out of Providence's premiere music venue, The Columbus Theater, in addition to running workshops and interactive public art and music experiences for the RISD Museum, the New Bedford Art Museum, the City of Providence, and other organizations and museums. In October of 2020 she moved back to her hometown of Portland, OR where she teaches in person at her home studio and at Revival Drum Shop. In addition to teaching, Rachel performs, records, and tours, and is involved with a regular studio practice in music and visual arts.