Twilight in the Garden of Hope: Nature as Inspiration

Learn from Kathy Ruttenberg, Multidisciplinary artist (sculpture, painting, and animation), about other perspectives on the environment.

Kathy has become increasingly involved in learning about conservation which feeds the direction of her work . My ideas for sculptures blow around the mountain where she lives as she walks through the woods with her head full of inspiration.

Kathy Ruttenberg is an accomplished, acclaimed multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, painting, and animation. Her fantastical humanistic and nature installations have been displayed on Broadway in New York City, and are permanently installed in the Tisch Children’s Zoo in New York’s Central Park and Battery Park and in the Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve in Amazonas, Brazil. Her work has been exhibited at venues throughout the world including Stefan Stux Gallery, New York; Sladmore Contemporary, London; the Dubuque Museum of Art, Iowa; the Caramoor Center for Music and Art, New York; the International Ceramic Biennial, France; the 5th World Ceramic Biennale Korea; and the 59th Faenza Prize International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Italy. She and her work have been featured in media, newspapers and publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, The Boston Globe, the Independent, Artpress, NY Post, and the television news magazine CBS Sunday Morning.