Raty SYKA
Raty is a cartoonist, printmaker, and educator interested in agriculture as a vital point of contact between humans and the plants, animals, fungi, minerals, and microorganisms that inhabit our world. Their work draws on research methods from sociocultural anthropology, American studies, and folklore, creating projects that are collaborative, community-engaged, and public-facing. Working from pen-and-ink drawings as well as field photos, Raty’s work primarily employs risograph, cyanotype, and silkscreen, with occasional projects in relief, intaglio, and sculpture. They are an alum of the UCSC MFA in Environmental Art & Social Practice, and joined Little Giant Collective in summer 2025. When not at the studio, you can often find them walking their rambunctious little dog by the ocean or daydreaming about life on Annares, Ursula K. Le Guin’s anarchist moon colony in The Dispossessed.
