Catherine Tutter is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art and religion in ceremonial textiles, installation, and ritual performance. Her art explores the primacy of language and text, the construction of memory, and the nature of transformation.

Inspired by the synergy of collective inquiry and engagement, her recent performances and installations have been realized as collaborative memorials, creating spaces for individual and collective mourning in the wake of monumental loss. Publicly presented works in recent years have included 'Abject/Object' (Mobius commission 2006), situated contextually in the War in Iraq, and 'Shrinekeepers: An Intermedia Performance' (Boston Cyberarts Festival 2007), a tribute to victims of youth violence in Boston area neighborhoods.

Catherine has been an artist-in-residence with Congregation Eitz Chayim (Cambridge, MA) since 2001. She is presently leading this community in 'Spinning and Weaving a Jewish Yarn', a project involving the material transformation of family narratives in a collectively woven Torah binder. She is simultaneously engaged in the solitary fabrication of a Torah mantle, an undertaking that pushes her investigation of ritual action to its outermost limits, as she considers the significance of ceremonial dress and the act of covering/uncovering an object of infinity.