Rachel Kice is an artist and Certified Consulting Hypnotist. Her recent art work intersects with hypnotherapy and explores the subconscious mind by means of painting while in hypnosis and abstracting language. She currently maintains a studio art practice, and is studying creative writing. Rachel was a founding fellow in Margaret Atwood’s 2022 project, Practical Utopias: An Exploration of the Possible.

Her adventurous career began in 2002 in Franklin, TN when she was dared to create a painting on stage during a jazz performance. She quickly gained notoriety as an “action painter,” painting on local and national concert stages as an original member of the artist’s collective, MuzikMafia, out of which came multi-platinum selling acts Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson.

Rachel has since painted on stage in hundreds of concerts with popular American music artists* and has been featured in media outlets including CNN, ABC, CMT, 60 Minutes, The Radio Music Awards, People, and USA Today* have featured her work and she’s collaborated with numerous well-known brands such as Chevy, Harley Davidson, Mead, MUSICARES, TEDx, Emory University, Warner Brothers Music, and NASCAR.*

She works with a diverse range of clients and her expressive abstract paintings are part of numerous private and public collections including those of the Tennessee State Museum, Warner Brothers, Sony, Berklee College of Music, and Creative Artists Agency.