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Date(s) - Fri 7/31/2026
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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ReikiSpace & Learning Place
2793 Old Post Rd., Suite 10
Harrisburg, PA 17110
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Please join us in Celebrating Raine Dawn Valentine’s Amazing work and hear about her Artistic process.
Complimentary Refreshments and Prize
Drawings!
Raine Dawn Valentine is an award-winning Indigenous artist, educator, and community leader of Turtle
Mountain Chippewa (Anishinaabe) heritage. She has been teaching art with Baltimore County Public
Schools since 2008, where she is a full-time middle school art educator, and she also serves as adjunct
faculty at Towson University and Notre Dame of Maryland University. With more than 15 years of experience
in public education and higher education, Raine’s work centers on choice-based art education, Teaching for
Artistic Behavior (TAB), arts integration, social-emotional learning, equity, and the role of spirituality in art education.
Raine has received national and regional recognition for her leadership and contributions to the field. She is
the NAEA National Middle Level Art Educator of the Year (2025) and the NAEA Eastern Region Art
Educator of the Year and Eastern Region Middle Level Art Educator of the Year (2026). Her additional
honors include the MAEA Linda Popp Leadership Award, MAEA Agent of Change Award, multiple NAEA
Agent of Change nominations, and the Brainly Educator of the Year Award. She currently serves as
Commissioner-at-Large for the NAEA EDI Commission and previously served as Chair of the Caucus on
the Spiritual in Art Education, advocating nationally for culturally responsive, inclusive, and soul-centered
approaches to teaching and learning.
As an artist, Raine is an intuitive painter whose work explores energy, light, ancestral knowledge, and
interconnectedness. Guided by Indigenous teachings, mindfulness, and deep listening, her creative process
honors art as both a personal and collective healing practice. She works intuitively with color and movement,
using her hands to respond to the energetic relationship between the canvas, the self, and the greater mystery.
Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Toronto International Visionary
Art Exhibition, the Baltimore Museum of Art Indigenous Artist Showcase, and multiple solo and juried
exhibitions. She is also a published writer and illustrator, contributing to SchoolArts Magazine, the NAEA
Newsletter, and The Mindful Studio, and illustrating the children’s book Grandmother Turtle Creation Story.
Raine’s teaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that art is a pathway to self-awareness, agency, and
transformation. She views creativity as a lived practice—one that nurtures identity, emotional intelligence, and
a sense of belonging. By honoring students as artists and whole beings, she creates learning environments
where curiosity, compassion, cultural identity, and creative voice are centered. Through both her teaching and
artmaking, Raine invites others to remember that creating is not just something we do—it is a way of being in
relationship with ourselves, each other, and the world.
