Ruth Bauer

I love to design projects for my students that require them to think on multiple levels and that provide a catalyst for discovery. My time with my students will only be one stop along their way, so I hope to challenge my students to think broadly, deeply, and critically about their own artwork and that of other artists.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Ruth Bauer’s oil paintings, watercolors, collages and monotypes have been shown in group exhibits in museums (The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Hudson River Museum, The Tucson Museum of Art, The DeCordova Museum, The Brockton Museum, and the Rose Art Museum) and in solo exhibitions in galleries in NYC, Chicago, and Boston. Various forms of narrative have always been part of Ruth Bauer’s art practice, which is multidisciplinary in that she paints, makes collages, writes, has co-created two theater pieces, and is now working on a third stop motion animation project with her collaborator, Blyth Hazen. Her inspiration springs from literature, science, history, or whatever else sparks an idea.

In addition to her work in visual art, she has also collaborated on two multi-media theater projects. She co-wrote the script and directed the art and video design for the award winning multi-media musical The Blue Flower which was produced regionally at A.R.T.-The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. Ruth has been an artist-in-residence in the HARP program at the HERE Arts Center in New York, and is a recipient of the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award for her work on “The Blue Flower”. She is a co-creator of The War Dept., a theatrical piece by Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer that was originally commissioned by the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, as part of a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. In her first collaboration with Blyth Hazen, they transformed some of the elements of The War Dept. into a stop motion video using puppets and a miniature set. Ruth is currently working with Blyth on the second act of their stop motion project titled Big Sky. Big Sky is a fictionalized memoir and an amalgamation of both of their childhood experiences in Texas dealing with gender roles, beauty standards, religion, race, the expansive landscape, and horned toads.

Information about and images of Ruth’s artwork and projects can be found here www.ruthbauer.com