Staff Profile | Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts

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Education
Awards & Honors
Selected Research

Current Courses

ART 451.001 Special Projects In Art: Video

ART 451.001 Special Projects: Drawing

ART 351.001 Special Projects: Video

ART 252.001 Video I

ART 252.002 Video I

MFA Interdisciplinary Studio Art

University of Michigan

BFA Studio Art, Art & Technology

Ohio State University

College Teaching Initiative Award

Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University

2024

Harold Boyd Endowed Professorship

Wonsook Kim School of Art, Illinois State University

2024

University Teaching Initiative Award

Illinois State University

2024

University Creative Activity Initiative Award

Illinois State University

2022

College Creative Activity Initiative Award

Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University

2021

Creative Art Honoree

Friends of the Library, Bowling Green State University

2018

Rick Valicenti Collaborative Teaching Initiative

School of Art, Bowling Green State University

2018

7th/8th Showcase Winne

Artslant

2017

First Year Award, Stamps School of Art & Design

Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan

2016

Best in Show

Tacocat Collective

2015

Vermi-Prize

Vermiculture Makers Club

2015

Aida Carnassa Snow Award

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Ohio State University

2012

Juror’s Award

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Ohio State University

2012

Grants and Contracts

Mills Grant

Ruth Burke.

Illinois State University. 2024 - 2024

Re-Integration of Mixed-Power Systems in Agroecological Intensification

Ruth Burke, Cynthia Edmonds-Cady.

U.S. Department of Agriculture SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Projects). 2024 - 2025

SARE Partnership Grant

Ruth Burke.

Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE). April 1 2024 - April 30 2026

University Research Grant

Ruth Burke.

Illinois State University. 2022 - 2023

Slow (Co)Working Spaces: Interspecies Labor and Collaboration

Ruth Burke.

Illinois State University. July 1 2021 - June 30 2021

Turnout: Perfect Prep

Ruth Burke.

Illinois State University. 2021

Workshops at Tillers International

Ruth Burke.

Illinois State University. June 20 2021

Faculty Development Support

Ruth Burke.

Illinois State University. - June 26 2023

Performances and Exhibits

Cambodia International Film Festival
Ruth Burke.
March 2025

Sunset on the Longest Day
Ruth Burke.
June 2025

BREATHE 2024
Ruth Burke.
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA). June 2024 - July 2024

Black Dirt
Ruth Burke.
Blow Up Art House Film Festival. November 1 2024 - November 5 2024

Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke
Ruth Burke.
Street Road Artists Space. February 1 2024 - April 15 2024

Of Love: A Labor
Ruth Burke.
Co-Prosperity. June 21 2024 - July 2024

What Water Feeds
Ruth Burke, Jin S Lee.
Center for Sustainable Water Futures, Illinois State University. March 2024 - April 2024

Black Dirt
Ruth Burke.
Goa International Short Film Festival. November 1 2023 - November 6 2023

Black Dirt
Ruth Burke.
Goa Short Film Festival. November 4 2023 - November 5 2023

INTRA/INTER
Ruth Burke.
Wave Pool Gallery. November 9 2023 - December 16 2023

Sunset on the Longest Day
Ruth Burke, Shannon Christopher Epplett.
ISU Horticulture Center. June 21 2023 - June 21 2023

Work: Black Dirt/Exhibit Title: SCREEN TEST
Ruth Burke.
Roman Susan Art Foundation. October 16 2023 - October 16 2023

Domestic Rewilding
Ruth Burke.
Franconia Sculpture Park. April 1 2022 - September 25 2022

Graze
Ruth Burke.
May 22 2022 - August 15 2022

International Door Depot
Ruth Burke.
MDW Fair. September 9 2022 - September 11 2022

Domestic Rewilding (A Living Land Acknowledgement)
Ruth Burke.
June 1 2021 - December 1 2027

Goldenrod/Terrain Biennial
Ruth Burke.
September 29 2021 - November 15 2021

This is Not My Land
Ruth Burke.
September 15 2021 - October 5 2021

Book, Chapter

Kinmaking & Settler Response-ability: Cultivating Moral Obligations through Interspecies Earth/Work

Ruth Burke.

(2026), Routledge, Taylor & Francis

Domestic Rewilding and Interspecies Labour

Ruth Burke, Shannon Christopher Epplett.

(2024), 347, Interspecies Performance, Performance Research Books

Journal Article

A Competition Question: horse welfare, pentathletes, and competitive riding

Aviva Vincent, Ruth Burke, Kaylynn Coates.

ZOOPHILOLOGICA. Polish Journal of Animal Studies

A Trace of Fashioned Violence

Ruth Burke.

Markings: a photo essay

Ruth Burke.

Social Work in Mental Health, 22 (6), https://doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2024.2388008

The Process of Coming and Going in This World: Interspecies Collaboration, Domestication, and Sound

Ruth Burke, Jessica Landau.

Other

webs of interdependencies: an interview on Vampire Bats and more-than-human worlds with Ruth Burke and D Rosen.

Ruth Burke, D Rosen.

(2025)

Animal Assisted Interventions in the Community

Aviva Laurent, Ruth Burke.

Interspecies Collaborations & Socially Engaged Art

Ruth Burke.

Presentations

A Life with Oxen

Ruth Burke.

DAPChats, Virtual, May, 2025

Sunset on the Longest Day – An Act of Act of Relational Community / An Act of Relatives in Communion

Ruth Burke, Shannon Epplett.

TEDXNormal, Normal, IL, April, 2025

Domestic Rewilding: More than Human Social Practice

Ruth Burke.

Ohio State University Visiting Artist, Columbus, OH, January, 2025

Draft Animals as Creative Collaborators

Ruth Burke.

World Draft Cattle Symposium, Lorsch, Germany, March 8, 2024

An Informal History of Oxen in McLean County

Ruth Burke.

Barnkeepers Speaker Series, Bloomington, IL, November 10, 2022

Roundtable: First Year Teamsters

Ruth Burke.

Midwest Ox Drovers Association Annual Gathering, Scotts, Michigan, June 23, 2022

Interdisciplinary Inquiry with a Multispecies World: Human-Animal Studies & Contemporary Art

Ruth Burke.

University Club Monthly Meeting, Normal, IL/Online, March 18, 2022

Interspecies Art/Work

Ruth Burke.

Oberlin College Visiting Artist Program, online, July, 2021