Rebecca Vaughan (she/her) was born and raised in Denver, CO and currently resides in Kansas City, MO. She has lived in the Netherlands and Canada. She received a BFA cum laude in sculpture at the University of Colorado, Boulder and completed her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University. Vaughan previously served as the artistic director of PlatteForum, a non-profit which hosts artists-in-residence from all over the world and pairs them with under-resourced youth to create artworks addressing topics of social justice and community. Vaughan has also served as the program director for the Art Students League of Denver, and she was the former chair of fine arts and head of sculpture at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. She held a residency as a resource artist at Redline Contemporary Art Center from 2011 to 2013. In 2019, in order to more fully pursue her art career, Vaughan gave up her work in non-profits and moved to Kansas City, where she is a part-time instructor for the Kansas City Art Institute and UMKC. She originally began baking as a hobby, but Vaughan now bakes professionally, supplying sourdough and traditional baguettes to Northwest Missouri restaurants.