Rebecca Salmon was born and raised in Plainview, New York. She received her MA in Art Education from New York University in 2017 as well a BFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2016 with a concentration in sculpture. Since 2017, she has been a visual arts teacher within the NYC Department of Education. From 2017-2022, she taught sculpture in the K-8 school, PS/IS 206 in South Brooklyn, and was lucky to teach a wide range of students from ages 5-14. Since 2022, she has taught Visual Arts Drawing and Painting at MS 104 Simon Baruch in Gramercy, Manhattan. Dozens of her students have gone on to attend specialized arts high schools and were featured artists in PS Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Manhattan and Brooklyn Borough Arts Festivals.
From the summers of 2015 through 2017, Rebecca taught ceramics and mold-making classes at NYU's High School Summer Art Intensive and advised students on building their college portfolios. In the summer of 2016, Rebecca spent time at the Siena Art Institute (Siena, Italy) and the Prattsville Artists Residency (New York). Rebecca has presented her work in galleries such as Art Centro (New York) and the National Arts Club (New York). Her art has been exhibited at 80WSE Gallery (New York) in a production of The Magic Flute in association with CHEAP Kollektiv and in Language of the Birds, Occult and Art, curated by Pam Grossman. Rebecca, an interdisciplinary artist, has studied special effects makeup and is also a trained vocalist and actor.
Within her own private art practice, Rebecca is primarily a ceramicist. Her pottery and sculptures have been displayed and sold in boutiques in lower Manhattan, including Abbode and Here Nor There. Her ceramics practice is based out of the Manny Cantor Center in the Lower East Side. Rebecca also is an experienced mold-maker, and makes and sells candles and jewelry. A well-rounded artist, she also loves to paint, designs clothes in her free time, and has a small side-business doing gel nails, which is a skill she teachers students in her “Pro-Level Press Ons” after school class at MS 104, run through Manhattan Youth Programming.
