Kate Rusek is a mixed media artist whose research, writing, and art making considers the connectivity between humanity, material culture, and the natural world. Influenced by complex organic architectures, man-made environmental catastrophes, and eco-social systems, Kate assembles highly tactile sculptures, textiles, installation, and time based media with an emphasis on Craft. Her work transmutes wasting and waste matter into abundant, maximalist, composite forms and dynamic biophilic textures that interrogate assigned value, material narrative, and a rigid binary of natural and unnatural.

Rusek received two B.F.As from The University of Miami and an M.A from Savannah College of Art and Design. Rusek has participated in residencies at Archie Bray Center for Ceramic Arts, Hambidge Center for the Arts, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center and Western Montana Open AIR. She is the recipient of The Devra Freelander Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park and a Windgate Distinguished Fellowship for Innovation in Craft.
Select exhibition include Spring Break Art Fair, Socrates Sculpture Park, Mizuma, Kips, and Wada, Site Gallery, Studio Archive, La Bodega Gallery, Geheim Gallery, Governors Island Art Fair, and the Gallery of Visual Arts at The University of Montana.
Additionally, Kate Rusek is a Daytime Emmy winning costume designer. She is a builder of costumes, puppets, and props as a proud member of IASTE Local 764, Theatrical Wardrobe Union. She has contributed her expertise on work with The Jim Henson Company, NBC Universal, HBO, Apple+, Hulu and the broader television and film industry.