Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. ​In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.
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She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.​
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Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.
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Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. ​In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.
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She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.​
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Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.
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Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. ​In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.
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She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.​
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Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.
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Rainey Knudson is a writer based in Houston. Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online journal of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. ​In 2019, she stepped down as publisher of Glasstire after 18 years at the helm. She edited the 2021 book One Thing Well: 22 Years of Installation Art, about Rice Gallery.
Rainey is currently writing The American 250, a project during 2026 featuring 250 American objects..
Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the University of Texas at Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places.
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