Katherine Rutter is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work investigates ecology, narrative, and multiple matters of care & connection. Raised on a small farm in Arkansas, her early experiences instilled an intimate relationship with the natural world and a curiosity to lean into the complexities of life. Her art practice involves papermaking, printmaking, bookmaking, and foraging. Building relationships through art has long been integral to her practice, through community engagements and workshops, university courses, exhibitions, and projects of site-responsive creativity. These collaborative environments of making and teaching are meaningful ways she shares her diverse experiences, cultivating spaces that encourage reflection, curiosity and nourishment. Along with exhibiting broadly, she has been awarded multiple grants and residencies, including at Penland School of Art, In Cahoots Printmaking Residency, The Alternative Art School, and Bernheim Forest & Arboretum. She is currently a year-long Artist in Residence at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in collaboration with Arkansas Children’s Northwest Hospital.