Education
MFA 2011 Interdisciplinary Art: Film/Video, Critical Theory Goddard College
Written/Visual Thesis: Knotting Nature: Desire, Narrative, and Art in Empty Environments
2009-10 Integrated Electronic Arts (iEAR) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BA 2004 Studio Art and Art History Reed College
Professional Experience
2017 Visiting Professor, University of Vermont, Burlington VT
2014-2016 Director, Institute for the Arts, Global Center for Advanced Studies
2012 Program Director, Individualized Masters of Arts Graduate Program, Burlington College, VT
2011-2016 Adjunct Faculty, Degree Project Instructor, Burlington College, VT
2011-2014 Adjunct Faculty, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester VT
2006-Present Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor, Director of Iyengar Yoga Center of Vermont
2010-11 Teaching Assistant, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
2010 Video Instructor, New Women of Vermont, Winooski, VT
2004 Artist’s Assistant, James Harrison, Portland, OR
2004 Event Manager, Portland Center for Performing Arts, PNCA Time-Based Arts Festival, Portland, OR
2003-04 Coordinator, Reed Arts Week, Portland, OR
2003 Docent and Youth Educator, Cooley Gallery, Portland, OR
2002-04 Studio Assistant, Reed College Photo and Digital Media Lab
Grants/Awards
2023 National Member, A.I.R. Gallery
2023 Residency, Vermont Studio Center
2012 Full Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2004 Reed College Presidential Endowment Grant
2003 Initiative Grant in Undergraduate Research, Reed College
2003 Kaspar T. Locher Creative Scholarship
Exhibitions
2023 Solo show of selected video works, Terminal Gallery, APSU Tennessee.
2023 Tap Lessons, official selection of Single Channel Video Festival, Burlington, VT
2019 Skin Ego, solo exhibition, Burlington City Arts, VT
2018 ScreenWorks, group video exhibition, University of Vermont
2017 Pink on Pink, photo series, Superfine! Art Fair, Miami
2017 Tap Lessons, group show, Garner Arts Center, NY
2017 Collected Works, solo video exhibition, Building Imagination Center, University of Stanislaus, CA
2016 6X HOWL, group show, University of Vermont
2016 Conceal/Reveal, site-specific installation with Dana Heffern and Overnight Projects, Burlington VT
2015 An Order, site-specific group show at St. Joseph’s abandoned orphanage, Burlington
2014 Plastic, Body, Dirt, and Squirrel…recent video works, solo show, Living/Learning Gallery, University of Vermont
2014 Glitch…a parallax of fantasy and failure, Zizek Studies Conference, University of Cincinnati, OH. Multi-media
intervention with Megan Flocken and showcase of video shorts, including premiere of Cadere and the Weal.
2013 Ethan Allen Nights, McCarthy Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, VT. Solo exhibition of multi-media installation.
Excavations, Design Center, Goddard College, VT.
Multi-media installation with site-specific projection and sound, with Dana Heffern.
Flag, “Feminist Film Shorts” group show, BCA gallery, Burlington VT.
2012 Misbookings on the Line of Flight, Deleuze, Guattari and the Arts Conference, King’s University College, Ontario. Multi-
media presentation with Megan Flocken.
My Human Being, Julian Scott Gallery, Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, VT. Solo exhibition and
visiting artist residency with collaboration from JSC students.
2011 Knotting Nature: Desire, Narrative and Art in Empty Environments, Goddard College, VT. Multi-media presentation of
graduate work.
New Voices, Sadie White Gallery, Community College of Vermont, Winooski, VT. Screening in collaboration with New
Women of Vermont video class.
2010 Imagine Him Happy, Vermont International Film Festival, Official Selection.
Imagine Him Happy, group screening, Goddard College.
My Human Being, solo installation, Goddard College.
2009 RPI Graduate Show, Contemporary Arts at Woodside, Troy, NY, co-curated.
In The Field Next To The Orchard...East Dorset, VT, site-specific sound and sculptural installation.
2008 RPI Graduate Show, West Hall Gallery, Troy, NY.
2007 There’s No House Like Home, East Dorset, VT, site-specific multimedia installation.
2006 Dissemination, Philly Fringe Festival, Philadelphia PA. Interactive performance in collaboration with Brooklyn and
Philadelphia-based collectives Saviour Scraps and HAAK.
Dissemination, Gilded Pony Performance Festival, Troy and Valley Falls NY.
2005 New Work from O,D, Pacific Switchboard Gallery, Portland OR.
2004 New Work from O,D, Memorial Coliseum Arts Celebration, Portland, OR.
Reed College Thesis Exhibition, The Belmont Factory, Portland, OR.
Reed College Creative Review, published photographs from series Near Elizabethtown, NC.
2003 Dim Sum with Red76, 16 Beaver, New York, NY.
New Work from O, D, the hall_ gallery, Portland, OR.
Kaspar T. Locher Scholars Exhibition, Feldenheimer Gallery, Portland, OR.
2002-03 Off-Alberta Street Gallery, Portland, OR. Monthly group exhibition.
Bibliography
Cynthia Close, “Rebecca Weisman: Skin Ego at Burlington City Arts”, Art New England,
March/April 2019
Rachel Jones, “Art Review: 'Rebecca Weisman: Skin Ego,' at BCA Center”, Seven Days,
March 13, 2019
Sadie Williams, “Local Artists Bring New Life to Former Burlington Orphanage”, Seven
Days, August 5, 2015
Brian Healey, “Bhutanese Refugees’ New Voices,” The Defender (publication of Saint Michael’s College), February 15, 2011
Margot Harrison, “Short Takes on Film,” Seven Days, October 20, 2010, 18
Anita Sandler, “There’s No House Like Home on Mad Tom Rd,” Manchester Journal, February, 2007
Publications
“Glitch”, International Journal of Zizek Studies, Vol 9, No 1 (2015)
“Cadere and the Weal”, International Journal of Zizek Studies, Vol 9, No 1 (2015)
Exhibition Review, “Guy Ben-Ner: Thursday the 12th,” C Magazine 108,
(Winter 2010): 46-7
Book Review, “Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” new translation by Edwin Bryant, Namarupa (web), November 2009
“Reflections on the Ganga,” Namarupa, Issue 10 Vol. 3, September 2009