Rachel Ganey is an interdisciplinary artist and designer with a body of work that is a centerfold between lawless imagination and refined skill. She is receiving a B.F.A in Graphic Design alongside a certificate in Illustration in May of 2025 from St. Louis, Missouri's Webster University. 

As a child, Rachel often felt like all of the things she was able to see so clearly in her own mind could never actually exist. Her drawings, paintings, and Model Magic tchotchkes never felt quite like the versions that lived in her brain. While she knows this will always be a losing battle, it’s what primarily inspires her pieces today - the desire to fully realize those liminal, fleeting visuals that are so easy to conjure but so hard to describe. She doesn’t worry about profundity or intimacy in her work; the reward, to Rachel, is creating with such detail and discipline that the viewer has to spend more time consuming it. This is why Rachel chose to become a designer. Designing requires a process of imagining, communicating, and visually translating. And in order to do this successfully, a designer should see their skills as not an extension of themself, but as a method of absorbing and producing, camouflaging, and shifting as the intention does, too.

Rachel is highly skilled in both digital and traditional media. Going from hands on materials such as ink, gouache, and graphite into Adobe programs felt very natural and complementary to her personal style. Rachel refuses to let the disconnected nature of digital design limit what she can produce, and learning how to properly navigate these programs has allowed her to find ways to weave personal touch into her works.