ARTIST-WRITER BACKGROUND
Ruth Zachary graduated from Western Michigan University in the Art Education Program, in 1967, which offered a wide exposure to many types of media, but opted in favor of a career in Social Work until 1977, when she began a full time art career, self-employed for twenty years and has been active as a fine artist from 1977 until the present.
WRITING EXPERIENCE
She worked as a News Reporter in a suburb of Grand Rapids MI from 1997 until she moved to Greeley, Co, from Michigan in 2004. She has shown her art work in Colorado since then, and has been a member of two art organizations and two writing groups from 2005 until the present. Ruth is the author of three books, one of which is a family memoir, Theories of Relativity, published in 2012, available through Amazon. She also has attended many writing workshops between 1980 and the present.
Writing Poetry is part of Ms. Zachary's creative expression and process. Writing blogs about art and writing fulfills
her desire to create as well as a means for exchange with other artists and writers.
ART CAREER EXPERIENCE
•Since graduating from WMU, she has
worked in several media, including: Painting, Mixed Media Collage, Photography,
Intaglio Printmaking, Wearable Art, and Computer Art.
•She taught Beginning Painting
classes at Kalamazoo Community College 1980s.
•She taught Printmaking classes at
the Battle Creek Art Center, in the1980s.
•From 1985-1987 she owned and
operated Graven Image Art Gallery in Kalamazoo.
•She was Juror at several Area
Competitions at the Lansing Art Gallery through 1999.
•She has been Public Presenter at
numerous art centers and educational institutions, workshops, etc.
EXHIBITS: Most Recent to Past.
•Madison and Main Cooperative Gallery, ongoing Nov. 2005-Mar. 2014
• 2012 One woman show at Presbyterian Family of Christ Church in Greeley.
•Madison and Main Cooperative Gallery, ongoing Nov. 2005-Mar. 2014
• 2012 One woman show at Presbyterian Family of Christ Church in Greeley.
•2012 Jan.-Feb-One woman show.
Chalice Arts, Unitarian-Universalist Church of Greeley.
•Greeley Art Association Show, 2010,
2nd and 3rd prize for Mixed Media category.
•Greeley Art Association Show, 2008,
1st prize for Photography.
•Hidden Treasures of Greeley, 2007,
group show at Sodbuster Bldg, Greeley.
•Farr Library, One Woman Show 2007,
Vintage Montage, Greeley, CO
•Michner Library, Group Show, 2006
Social Commentary Show UNC, Greeley, Greeley Art Association Show, 2005, 2nd
prize for Mixed Media category.
•Upjohn Company One Woman Show 2003,
Kalamazoo MI
•Jefferson Street Art Gallery, One
Woman Show 2003, Reflections of Yesteryear Landscapes in Water Media,
Hastings, MI
•Upjohn Company, One Woman Show
1994? Kalamazoo, MI.
•Mythic Transitions 1984?
Two-person show - Wearable Art Exhibit at Knauss Hall, WMU, Kalamazoo Michigan.
ILLUSTRATIONS: 1987-1999s.
•Kay Gardner’s Oroboros
Cantata CD – Cover Design
•Diane Stein’s Stroking the
Python, book. Cover Design
•We Moon Calendar – intermittently -Interior
Illustrations. Anthology In the Spirit of We Moon. 2010
Images
and Writing are the Copyright © of Ruth Zachary
Ruth Zachary's Other WEBLOGS - 2013 On.
http://rzmontage.blogspot.com (takes viewer to new–Ruth Zachary Montage) - About Compostion, Realistic Art Techniques, Networking with Other Artists.
http://ruthzachary.blogspot.com
–( takes viewer to new Mixed Media Abstract Art) - About Organic and
Geometric Abstract Art, Patterned Field Landscapes, and More.
http:// ruthzwritestuff.blogspot.com – (takes viewer to new R.Z. Write Stuff )- About Writing, Poetry , Networking with Other Writers
http://rzhealthstuff.blogspot.com
–(takes viewer to new blog Earth Born Health )- Nutritional Diet, Natural Remedies, Autoimmune Conditions.
OLDER BLOG POSTS from 2008 to Dec 2013. Discontinued
by Google in Dec. 2013 but these blogs are still available for viewing:
ruthzacharyart.blogspot.com
- About Art Techniques, to Network with Other Artists. (Continued Above.)rzwritestuff.blogspot.com ( takes viewer to old site) About Writing, & Poetry, to Network with Other Writers. (Continued Above)
cuckooschild.blogspot.com - About Family. Poetry and Vintage Montages by Ruth Zachary.
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