2024Ellen Rutt
Artist, Quilter, Former World Record Holder for Worlds Longest Hopscotch
DETROIT (mostly), ELSEWHERE (sometimes)
By chance or by fate, I met Mary and Kelly in the summer of 2023 on the Sawbill porch in late July, our clothes sticking to our bodies from sweat or from lake water, impossible to tell. My partner Elle bought property a rural mile (unofficial unit of measurement equalling a 15 minute drive) from Sawbill and we couldn’t believe our luck.
The following summer, 2024, we spent two months at Sawbill, eating fresh fish, hiking the trail behind the water tower, processing clay from the Betsie River and painting in the garage while listening to WuWu radio.
Ideas we didn’t get to yet: A dinner party using only stick utensils and rocks as plates, a puppet show, and a parade art exhibition. We’ll just have to come back.
Ellen Rutt is a queer Detroit-based painter, muralist, quilter and aspiring builder. Throughout the intersecting disciplines of her practice, she investigates the complex relationships between place, process, material and movement to create images, objects, and experiences that are active, embodied, and site-specific.
Artist, Quilter, Former World Record Holder for Worlds Longest Hopscotch
DETROIT (mostly), ELSEWHERE (sometimes)By chance or by fate, I met Mary and Kelly in the summer of 2023 on the Sawbill porch in late July, our clothes sticking to our bodies from sweat or from lake water, impossible to tell. My partner Elle bought property a rural mile (unofficial unit of measurement equalling a 15 minute drive) from Sawbill and we couldn’t believe our luck.
The following summer, 2024, we spent two months at Sawbill, eating fresh fish, hiking the trail behind the water tower, processing clay from the Betsie River and painting in the garage while listening to WuWu radio.
Ideas we didn’t get to yet: A dinner party using only stick utensils and rocks as plates, a puppet show, and a parade art exhibition. We’ll just have to come back.
Ellen Rutt is a queer Detroit-based painter, muralist, quilter and aspiring builder. Throughout the intersecting disciplines of her practice, she investigates the complex relationships between place, process, material and movement to create images, objects, and experiences that are active, embodied, and site-specific.