UU Santa Fe hosts various art installations by local artists; these change bi-monthly. You will find on this page our featured artist(s).
Art on Barcelona is facilitated and curated by Virginia Asman.
Art on Barcelona is facilitated and curated by Virginia Asman.
Art on Barcelona
Ruth Glazing Outdoors
Ruth Weston | Recent Drawings and Sculpture
May/June 2019
Meet the artist: Sunday, May 5, 11:30 am-1 pm
Once again, Art On Barcelona is happy to exhibit the work of another of our talented UUSF artist-members—Ruth Weston.
Ruth describes her journey as an artist: I am a ceramic artist who started my career in a very traditional way with a Bachelor of Art from the University of California Berkeley and a Masters in Art History from Rosary College Graduate School of Fine Arts, at the Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy. I taught for five years but when public school art programs began closing due to a lack of funding, I returned to school to study ceramic engineering at Rutgers University. I earned a Master of Science in engineering and spent the next 20 years developing processes for the manufacture of glasses. Fifteen years ago I moved to Santa Fe and returned to my art and began developing my own processes to produce figurative clay art.
My medium is glazed stoneware. I have developed my own matt glazes, which give a unique surface to my sculpture. A constant in my work is the feeling that I am painting with my glazes. A thin layer of glaze can have the appearance of a watercolor wash, where the underlying clay color becomes part of the final surface. My art is a celebration of the feminine, with distinctly female subject matter. There are many issues in women’s lives, which have not been addressed, seriously in modern sculpture. Through my art I have recaptured the ability to express aspects of my womanhood.
May/June 2019
Meet the artist: Sunday, May 5, 11:30 am-1 pm
Once again, Art On Barcelona is happy to exhibit the work of another of our talented UUSF artist-members—Ruth Weston.
Ruth describes her journey as an artist: I am a ceramic artist who started my career in a very traditional way with a Bachelor of Art from the University of California Berkeley and a Masters in Art History from Rosary College Graduate School of Fine Arts, at the Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy. I taught for five years but when public school art programs began closing due to a lack of funding, I returned to school to study ceramic engineering at Rutgers University. I earned a Master of Science in engineering and spent the next 20 years developing processes for the manufacture of glasses. Fifteen years ago I moved to Santa Fe and returned to my art and began developing my own processes to produce figurative clay art.
My medium is glazed stoneware. I have developed my own matt glazes, which give a unique surface to my sculpture. A constant in my work is the feeling that I am painting with my glazes. A thin layer of glaze can have the appearance of a watercolor wash, where the underlying clay color becomes part of the final surface. My art is a celebration of the feminine, with distinctly female subject matter. There are many issues in women’s lives, which have not been addressed, seriously in modern sculpture. Through my art I have recaptured the ability to express aspects of my womanhood.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.―Anne Frank