smudge studio

smudge studio is a collaboration between Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse. Jamie Kruse is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor at Parsons, The New School for Design (New York, NY). In 2005 she co-founded smudge, with Elizabeth Ellsworth, based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, The New School Green Fund; New York State Council for the Arts, and the Brooklyn Arts Council. She has exhibited and presented her work both nationally and internationally. She is the author of the Friends of the Pleistocene blog, and has co-edited a collection of essays with Elizabeth Ellsworth entitled, Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life (punctum books, 2012).

smudge studio first joined Summer Tea 2020 with its virtual workshop This Time with Tea. In Summer Tea 2021, 12 guests were invited to shared tea for Drawing a Line to the Sun.