Finding the Patterns: A Conversation Between Rachel Breen and Christina Schmid was a conversation recorded on December 16, 2020. Topic: What is Art's role in social engagement? What do sewing, drawing and fabric scraps from Bangladesh have to do with the global garment industry?

The first couple of minutes of the conversation have vanished this starts in mid thought as Breen is sharing her trip to Bangladesh and how it inspired her work in The Shapes We Take that will reopen in January at SooVAC.

Christina Schmid is a writer, teacher, critic, and occasional curator whose essays and reviews have been published in Artforum, ArtPulse, Afterimage, Flash Art, Foam, and in a range of online venues. She is the recipient of a 2020 MSAB grant for creative prose and teaches contemporary art, critical thinking and theory at the Art Department of the University of Minnesota, where she gets to talk about art for a living.

Rachel Breen is a visual artist who works at the intersection of drawing, installation and public engagement. She has exhibited her work locally and nationally and is the recipient of four Minnesota State Arts Board grants, the Walker Art Center’s Open Field fellowship, and the 2019–2020 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Rachel holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota and an undergraduate degree from The Evergreen State College. She is a Professor of Art at Anoka Ramsey Community College.