Ruthie Abel is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is grounded in two decades of advocacy for human rights, civil liberties, and environmental justice initiatives.
Above The Fold builds on prior work, Let It Be The Dream It Used To Be, documentary photographs made with young clients of eight immigrant aid organizations.
Above the Fold receives support from the New York State Council on the Arts and has fiscal sponsorship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Abel is an FDR Four Freedoms Park artist award winner; FUJI Photo awardee; Peter S. Reed Foundation grantee; commission artist from The Rockefeller Foundation and the New Museum; Eddie Adams Workshop alum; and New York University Step Up Photo Voice photography instructor, in conjunction with the Josephine Herrick Project.
Her work has been reviewed in Artnet News and has been published in The Huffington Post, Newsweek, Topic Stories, Vogue, Purple Diary, Artnet News and Artsy.
She contributed the cover image and primary photography to Vulnerable But Not Broken: Psychosocial challenges and resilience pathways among unaccompanied children, a Yale University School of Medicine publication.
A North Carolina native, Ruthie graduated from Columbia Law School, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
