Zachary Rutter Art

A little late for opening weekend of trout in PA, but the backyard trout are officially swimming. 🎣

When we bought this house in 2020, the first thing I painted on the garage was a mural of a lion. I painted it just weeks before my daughter was born.

Six years later, we gave the wall a facelift.

This time the mural is rainbow trout, and the coolest part is that I didn’t paint it alone. My daughter helped paint over the original mural she arrived into this world with, and her little brother jumped in to help too.

Swipe through to see the whole process:
primer over the old lion, the new sketch taking shape, lots of spray paint, and a few family photos mixed in along the way.

Kind of wild looking back at that first mural now. What started as something I painted while waiting for my daughter to arrive has turned into something we all worked on together. ♥️

Still trying to find the words for this one…

The closing of A Love Letter to the Mon Valley was everything I could have hoped for and more. The turnout. The energy. The conversations. The love in the room. It was unreal.

With the success of the show and the fact that almost all of my artwork sold out, I honestly needed this weekend to decompress and pinch myself. I’m beyond grateful. Beyond proud. Beyond inspired.

Thank you to every single artist who trusted me and brought their work into this vision. You elevated this show in ways I could have never done alone.

Thank you to Eberle Studios for believing in the concept and giving us the space to make it real.

Thank you to 1 Valley Social for helping us build something bigger than just an exhibition.

And thank you to every single person who came to the opening, the closing, or stopped through during gallery hours this past month. You showed up for Mon Valley art. You supported local creatives. You made this matter.

Art is a universal language. It is meant to bring community together. And this show did exactly that.

What a time to be alive.
What a time to be an artist.
What a high bar to set as a first-time curator.

I truly cannot wait to see where this journey takes me next.

Mon Valley forever.

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