Leader Details

Kate Rutter Kate Rutter is an avid nature journaler, urban naturalist, educator, and bird enthusiast who enlivens nature-human connection through sketching, observation, and curiosity. A lifelong sketcher with an experimental and rambunctious visual practice, Kate's education work spans nature journal workshops at public & private gardens and nurseries, online teaching, corporate and nonprofit trainings and conferences, and serving as adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts. Kate is a California Naturalist, a board member of the Wild Wonder Foundation, has illustrated three books, and holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Wellesley College. When not teaching, she can be found wandering Oakland, CA on the lookout for Black-crowned night herons.