Faculty

Rae Bates is Hamilton Studio School's founding faculty member.  

The third generation in her family to work in the visual arts, Rae has over 25 years of teaching experience working with students of all ages in a range of settings including Sheridan College's Illustration Program, The Dundas Valley School of Art, and a home school.  

Rae is a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.  She holds an Hons. B.A. in Comparative Literature from McMaster University and a M.A. in Communication Studies from McGill University.  

She works as a painter, illustrator, writer and researcher in her home studio in Hamilton, Ontario.

Locally, she is best known as the illustrator of Paislee and the Talking Tree.