Kate Ruddle – CV
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2023 Show 56, The Front, Montpelier, VT (August – upcoming)
2022 Drip – Installations & 2D Work Exploring Water Issues. Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT
2021 The Violet Protest – artwork delivered to Members of Congress, Washington, DC
2020 HeART and Home, Fair Housing, Burlington, VT
Felt – Waterbury Public Library, Waterbury Vermont
2019 Felt – Hildene Estate, Manchester Center, VT
Felt – Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival, Tunbridge, VT
Close to the Cloth – TW Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT
2016 Group Exhibit Textílsentur ĺslands – Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós, Iceland
2014 Mutated Structure – Drive-Thru Vegetable Garden, conceptual architecture design challenge, amillionviruses.info
Silicon Valley Small Works, Juror Kathryn Funk, Vargas Gallery, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
In 3D, Juried by Donna Napper -SJICA curator, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, CA
2012 National Fiber Art Exhibit, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
2011 Altered Book Show, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art at Novato Arts Center, Novato, CA
2010 Smiths Art and Skills Service, SFMOMA, Allison Smith, and Red Cross, San Francisco, CA
The Paper Show: Folded, Cut & Sculpted Shapes, Monterey Peninsula Airport, Monterey, CA
Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, Curator – Carin Adams, Cricket Engine Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008 Pacific Rim Sculpture, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
2007 13th Annual Ruth Bancroft Garden Sculpture Show, Walnut Creek, CA
Wrap, Reflect, Reveal. San Pablo Art Gallery, San Pablo, CA
2005 Installations Examining Society and Space, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
dud performances: Anno Domini, San Jose, CA, Illuminated Corridor, Oakland, CA,
Lila Theatre, San Francisco, CA, “Hot Spot Live” Broadcast on Channel 26, Petaluma, CA,
SIMM Series/Outsound Research, Musicians Union Hall, San Francisco, CA
2004 dud Performances: Option Anxiety, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA,
Code Red, Oakland Metro Theatre, Oakland, CA, dud and Brian Kenny Fresno, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA,
dud zone, Temescal Art Center, Oakland, CA
2003 dud Performance: David Star Art Opening, Crocker Galleria, San Francisco, CA
dud Performance : benefit for SomArts Cultural Center, Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Repurpose, Curator – Nicolas Bourriaud, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2000 Pacific Rim Sculpture Group’s Bay Area Student Sculpture Biennial, Curator – Catherine Clark, Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute MFA Graduate Exhibition, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Cross Roads-Art of Revolution / Art of Rescue, Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Artist in Residence
2018 Vermont Artists Week – Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2016 Textílsentur ĺslands – Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós, Iceland
1996 Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant. Johnson, VT
Selected Media / Publications / Articles
2019 – Close to the Cloth – Textiles Inspire Vermont Artists – Times Argus – Mary Gow – Arts Correspondent
2014 – Mutated Structure – Drive-Thru Vegetable Garden, conceptual architecture award, http://amillionviruses.info/msp/
2013 – Contemporary Artists Magazine, Experiment and Concept, Teaching, Learning, and Making at the San Francisco Art Institute – contributor. Chongqing, China. Issue # 2013 No. 4 Total 085.
2011 – ABC 7, Sustainable Sculpture Exhibit, San Francisco Art Institute and Levi Strauss and Co. Don Sanchez – reporter.
2010 – East Bay Express, Picks – Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, Carin Adams, Oakland Museum of Art, Dewitt Chang.
2009 – Artichoke Season. Haiku book by Sue Antolin, cover art by Kate Ruddle.
2007 – Something that Matters, Wednesday Women Writers Anthology. Three Packages, Kate Ruddle.
2007 – Artweek, Wrap, Reflect Reveal at the San Pablo Art Gallery, Barbara Morris.
2007 – Richmond Art Center, A Conversation With Susan Peterson, Kate Ruddle.
2002 – SF Chronicle, The Juror Reaches his Verdict, Kenneth Baker.
Presentations / Public Talks
2021 Drawing at Home – Newsroom@home – Mercury News, East Bay Times, Marin Independent Journal.
2018 Vermont Artists Week, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2012 Sculpture Department Colloquium, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2008 Textiles Department, California College of the Art, Oakland, CA
1996 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Collections
Private Collections: San Francisco, Marin, Oakland, CA. Indianapolis, IN. New Haven, CT
Education
2000 MFA, Sculpture. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1990 BFA, Painting. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1997 Drawing & Painting Marathon. New York Studio School. NY
1989 Yale University Summer School of Art and Music at Norfolk. Norfolk, CT
1988 Indiana University Summer Art Course, Florence, Italy
Awards
2022 Artist Development Grant, Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, VT
2014 Honorarium, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2011 Honorarium, Art Works for Change, Oakland, CA
2011 Honorarium, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2002 Honorarium, Southern Exposure / Bernard Osher Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1996 Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant. Johnson, VT
1990 Harry Engel Memorial Award, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1989 The National Society of Arts and Letters, Art Merit Award for Painting.
1989 Yale University Summer School of Art and Music at Norfolk Fellowship. Norfolk, CT
1988 Honors Division Travel Grant, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN