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Rebecca Allan is a New York-based painter whose work centers on the watershed landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast. She is also an accomplished botanical illustrator whose paintings of native plants collected during the Lewis and Clark expedition were exhibited at the Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington State. Exhibiting nationally since 1985, her most recent exhibition of river tondos was held at Gallery 2/20 in Chelsea. Her work was also included in the exhibition, Legacy and Recollection, at the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination in New York.

Rebecca received her MFA from Kent State University and BA from Allegheny College. She studied painting in Le Puy Notre Dame, France with Richard Kleeman, and ethnobotany in the San Juan Islands with botanist Ryan Drum. She has been a fellow at Centrum Foundation in Washington, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Dorland Mountain Art Colony in California. An esteemed and dedicated teacher/lecturer for over 17 years, she has taught at Purchase College (State University of New York), The New York Botanical Garden, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle Academy of Fine Art, Allegheny College, The Heritage Institute (Antioch University), Seattle Art Museum and Frye Art Museum. She was an artist-in-education and teacher-trainer with the Washington State Arts Commission from 1998–2003.

Rebecca is currently Director of Public Programs at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in New York (www.bgc.bard.edu).