Zoe Scruggs

Zoe Scruggs is a multidisciplinary artist and environmental justice worker from Delaware. Through printmaking, painting, and music she explores nature as the backdrop to political and personal life. Using her experiences working in agriculture, environmental justice, and cultural organizing spaces, she examines how our current political struggles exist in a complicated web that is affected by our natural systems, economic systems, and underlying ideological beliefs. Scruggs received her BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited work at the Delaware Contemporary Museum, the Hessel Museum of Art, the University of Rhode Island, Edge Zones Gallery, Bunker Projects, and the RISD Museum. She has been awarded residencies at The Macedonia Institute, Pioneer Works, Baby Castles, and Bunker Projects. She is a current Young Black Climate Leader fellow at the People’s Climate Innovation Center.