Raegan Russell is an artist and art educator who works primarily in painting (oils) and printmaking. Her current body of work is figurative, painterly and evocative of the light and space found in the neighborhoods and changing landscape of rural Maine. Raegan Russell is a graduate of Boston University’s School for the Arts where she earned both her BFA and MFA. For the past twenty years, she has participated in artist residencies and workshops at the Art Institute of Boston, Maine College of Art, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, where she has been proud to collaborate with Maine’s rich community of artists and craftsmen. Raegan Russell was a Monhegan Island Artist Residency recipient in 2018, which changed the trajectory of her painting career. Since then, she has embraced plein air painting as part of her artistic process, and spends summers on Monhegan painting. Her paintings have been exhibited throughout New England and in St. Croix, USVI, and are held in US and international private collections. 

Raegan Russell is an art educator at Berwick Academy where she has enjoyed teaching art for 25 years and where she is currently the Visual Art Chair and Director of Visual and Performing Arts. She has been the recipient of the Dorothy Green Award and is the 2021 MAEA Maine Art Educator of the Year.