frame·work
/ˈfrāmˌwərk/
an essential supporting structure
I chose Framework as my practice name in reference to the technology of weaving I love and know so well. Like a loom that provides the weaver with the stable frame they need to weave their cloth, Framework Coaching is your steady ground and supporting structure.
About Rachel Meginnes
I am a visual artist and creative life coach.
As a trusted mentor attuned to the difficulties of being an artist and feeling that call, I guide fellow creatives through growth and challenge, offering them insight, clarity, and the momentum they need to move forward. I received my coach training from the Mindfulness Coaching School in Santa Fe, NM and my coach certification through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) in 2022. I retain yearly membership with the ICF.
In my art practice, I work with found quilts and textiles, pulling them apart, experiencing their maker’s logic in conversation with my own. I received my undergraduate degree in Art from Earlham College and my Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington. My work can be found in the collections of the United States Art in Embassies Program in Amman, Jordan and in public and private collections nationwide.
I live and work in Western North Carolina where I first arrived for a three-year residency at Penland School of Craft in 2012. I am part of an interdependent community of artists, connected by craft and the natural surrounds of the Blue Ridge mountains.
To read more about me and my artistic practice: rachelmeginnes.com
Site photography: Portraits by Mercedes Jelinek, video stills by Loam, homepage hand image by Alexandra Genova.
Framework Coaching is based in Spruce Pine, NC. This place where I coach, live, make art, and help others is loved and nurtured by the Cherokee people of the past, present, and future. This land was violently stolen from their primary care and yet they rise, caring for it still. In my love for this place is the acknowledgement of the genocide that took place here against the Cherokee people.
“Rachel possesses patience, steadiness, tenderness, and brilliance.
I was compelled to contact Rachel in a last-ditch effort to resuscitate a writing project in which I was deeply invested and profoundly stuck. At stake wasn't just the completion of this particular project, but a deeper sense of how writing is connected to making and finding meaning in my life. One of the surprises of our work together was that getting unstuck in my writing turned out to promote growth and flourishing in other parts of my life.”
– Jessamyn Hatcher, Writer & wild, loving heart