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Rebecca Padilla is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Tacoma, Washington. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Fine Art at Arizona State University. She has widely exhibited her work and has completed residencies at the Houston Center for craft, Anderson Ranch Art Center, and the University of Denver, among others. After moving to the United States at age 10, she has lived a transient life and is influenced by the many places she has loved. Her work explores migration, place, and attunement through site-responsive materials and mixed media sculptural processes. Her research draws from post-humanism, ecology, and geography. She grounds her practice in the words of anthropologist Tim Ingold, who says “The forms of objects are not imposed from above, but grow from the mutual involvement of people and materials in an environment... [we] work from within the world, not upon it.” She believes art education plays a vital role in fostering care for the landscape we inhabit, shaping culture, and expanding collective empathy.