Rahne Alexander

Santa Librada's debut album. Formed in 2016, Santa Librada is a feminist/queer/trans-fronted punk band whose songs speak to feminism, trans rights, love, sex and the surveillance state. Their music features powerful vocals and post punk angular guitar on a backbone of tough 70's R&R rhythms. Featuring Rahne Alexander (vocals, lyrics), Colleen Pelser (bass), Sharon Santos (drums), and Kelsi Loos (guitar). https://santalibrada.bandcamp.com/album/santa-librada

(Single channel video, 5:05, 2018) Created in direct reaction to the 2018 Supreme Court nomination hearings, Dude Descending A Staircase #1 is a deep dive into dudes and their cinematic staircase behavior. This short collage first screened at the International Conference of Chinese Computer Human Interaction at Xiamen University, where it was awarded a “Best Creative Award.” Selected for the Baltimore Museum of Art Screening Room online exibition, Summer 2020. https://tomorrows.artbma.org/video/rahne_alexander_dude_descending_a_staircase.php

A book personal essays by Rahne Alexander. Winner of the 2019 OutWrite Chapbook Competition in Nonfiction. Selected by Kristen Arnett. Published by Neon Hemlock Press, Aug 2019 “Rahne Alexander's collection is a fascinating look at how memory has the ability to move us through time and place. The prose is compelling and warm, richly conversational. This is the kind of writing that puts a hand on your arm, pulls you in close, and whispers in your ear. It is earnest without artifice. It is powerful work.” — Kristen Arnett https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/heretic-to-housewife-by-rahne-alexander

"I Am The End Of The Patriarchy And So Can You" was developed for the Mary B. Howard Invitational: An Excellent Thought About A Quality Idea, curated by | ‘sindikit | and the Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (formerly the Greater Reston Arts Center). My first painted artwork, "I Am The End Of The Patriarchy And So Can You" is a manifesto of sorts, comprised of catalyzing concepts and conclusions that have driven me as an artist, citizen, and woman.

BALTIMORATORY is a performance series featuring historic speeches delivered by Baltimore performers. Curated by Lucia A. Treasure (Pigeonaire), BALTIMORATORY debuted in October 2021. In November 2021, I performed at the second BALTIMORATORY, delivering Dorothy Parker's 1953 speech "Hollywood, the Land I Won't Return To," a witty and candid commentary which followed from her inclusion in the "Hollywood 10" during McCarthy's House Un-American Activity Committee trials. Because the series permits interpretation, I chose to deliver the speech in the style of a standup comedy act. The performance -- my first non-musical live performance in nearly 2 years -- was well-received by a full house at Peabody Heights Brewery; a healing return to the stage.

I completed my MFA in Intermedia + Digital Arts at UMBC in 2021. My thesis project, Sick Transit, a tripartite intermedia piece about medicine, mobility, and art-making within a mother/daughter relationship defined by multiple sclerosis and transsexuality. Sick Transit is an exemplativist femmage, comprising a series of autobiographical monologic performances meditating on mobility, maternity, gender, feminism, and systems of healthcare in the relationship between two artists: the transsexual daughter of a devout Mormon who lived with multiple sclerosis for more than 30 years. The titular video performance is featured in Let’s Exchange, a streaming telethonic variety/talk show hosted by the artist interviewing more than two dozen Baltimore artists, and framed by Control Room, an installation replicating the artist’s pandemic studio. A supplementary internet radio show, featuring a playlist of related music, was featured on Carrie Fucile's Owls At Noon internet radio channel. For the hardy, my MFA thesis defense was broadcast (and archived!) on Facebook Live.