Ruthe Blalock Jones:

Exhibition Subtitle

A Retrospective

Featuring the works of internationally acclaimed artist, Ruthe Blalock Jones (Chu-Lun-Dit), Delaware/Shawnee/Peoria, the retrospective exhibition presents artworks from throughout her career.  Creating in a range of media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, and printmaking, her works emerge from personal experiences with a focus upon Native American women in dance attire, and depictions of ceremonial and social events.  

Her works have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally and are housed in  public collections that include the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Gilcrease Museum and the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, and the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation) in New York. Other institutions include Bacone College, the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko, the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., and the University of Tulsa.

Jones has served on the Governor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women and in 1993 received the Oklahoma Governor's Arts and Education Award. She was included in the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1995 and in 2000 received Bacone College's Dick West Award. She has served on the board of the Jacobson Foundation in Norman. At the beginning of the twenty-first century she resided in Okmulgee, served as associate professor of art in Bacone College, and continued to paint and exhibit her works around the nation and in foreign nations.

Artist Talk & Reception
Feb 15, 2012 @ 4-6pm