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I was born in Newark, NJ in 1948, and grew up in various towns in New Jersey, New York, and finally Richmond, Virginia, where I graduated from high school. Although I had been taking art lessons on and off since the second grade, I ended up majoring in English at Franconia College, Franconia, New Hampshire (BA, 1970). As part of my undergraduate studies, I had the opportunity to attend the University of Florence for a year-and-a-half, studying Italian and Italian literature, and then wrote my senior thesis on Dante’s La Vita Nuova.
After graduation I went to New York where I took up silkscreening and photography. Later I moved to Bennington, VT, where I opened a silkscreen shop and became active in the arts community there. In 1979, I returned to school, enrolling at the Clark Art Institute-Williams College, earning a masters degree in art history with an emphasis in medieval art. |
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| I then returned to New York where I took a job as a gallery lecturer at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum, and later enrolled at City University of New York in their art history program. After finishing my course work for the Ph.D., I moved to Florida to take the job of curator of education at the Norton Art Gallery in West Palm Beach. |
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| In 1991, I moved to Little Rock to take the job of curator of art at The Arkansas Arts Center. I remained there until 1997, when I resigned to write my dissertation on the Taos, New Mexico artist Emil Bisttram, for which I received the Ph.D. in 2000. Afterwards I taught at local colleges (Pulaski Tech, UAPB, UCA, and Hendrix), and in 2004 I returned to art-making full-time. My Tibetan series pastels are the first works that I am exhibiting. |
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| Ruth Pasquine |
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