Faculty

Jamie Kruse an artist, designer and Assistant Professor at Parsons, The New School for Design (New York, NY). Her work has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, The New School Green Fund (Office of Sustainability, The New School); New York State Council for the Arts, the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Brooklyn Arts Council, among others. She has exhibited and presented her work both nationally and internationally. In the spring of 2014 she was a guest researcher for Future North (AHO Oslo). She co-edited a collection of essays with Elizabeth Ellsworth entitled, Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life (punctum books, 2012).

See course website for Sustainable Systems. 

She is also the co-director of smudge studio, with Elizabeth Ellsworth, based in Brooklyn, NY.

In May 002022, smudge launched the site-specific project OBSERVATORY, located on the Penobscot Formation, in Belfast, Maine (158 High Street). OBSERVATORY is a geo-cosmo field station dedicated to making vast scales of geo | cosmo connection sense-able, meaningful, and liveable at a human scale. In the midst of fast environmental change, OBSERVATORY’s mission is to generate experiences of curiosity, participation, and deep belonging to our home planet—and to its home, the cosmos.