By
Sophy Tuttle
Piece description from the artist
One of the lesser known and considered consequences of the Keystone XL Pipeline is its devastating effect on endangered whooping cranes. This species was brought back from the brink of extinction by scientists who built giant puppets to rear chicks and then flew planes to teach them to fly (The movie Fly Away Home is about this effort). The number one cause of death for these cranes, estimated at 329 birds in the wild, is power line strikes. Their flight path follows the pipeline for hundreds of miles through the Midwest.
Sophy Tuttle is a painter and muralist based in Boston, Massachusetts. She got her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the Hartford Art School. She is inspired by her childhood growing up in the woods in Central Massachusetts and all the plants, animals, and people she has met along the way.
Sophy studied mural painting in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2013. Since then, she has painted environmentally-themed murals locally from Salem to Worcester, as well as nationally and internationally. She has been recognized by American Illustration, the Society of Illustrators, and holds the key to the City of Worcester for her mural work there.
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