Ruth Weisberg

{{Short description|American artist and educator (born 1942)}} {{Use American English|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Ruth Weisberg | honorific_suffix = | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = 1942 | birth_place = Chicago, IL, USA | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | education = Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, Italy <br> University of Michigan | alma_mater = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | awards = Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website =  | module = }}

'''Ruth Weisberg''' (born 1942) is an American artist and Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, where she is also former dean of the USC Roski School of Art and Design.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Seed|first1=John|title=Ruth Weisberg: The Adventure of Living In Between|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/ruth-weisberg-the-adventu_b_7857282.html|work=The Huffington Post|date=23 July 2015 |accessdate=20 January 2017}}</ref> Weisberg's work is influenced by her Jewish heritage and its traditions, the human body, and feminist themes. She works primarily in painting, and her recent work is produced in scroll formats.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Curtis|first1=Cathy|title=ART REVIEW : The Literal Universe of Ruth Weisberg|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-12-23-ca-679-story.html|access-date=20 January 2017|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=December 23, 1988}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Weisberg|first1=Ruth|last2=Hoffman|first2=Lawrence A|last3=Berman|first3=Nancy M.|title=Ruth Weisberg, the Scroll (exhibition catalog)|date=1997|publisher=Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCZQAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>

== Career == ===Exhibitions=== Weisberg has had over 70 solo exhibitions of her work including those at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA and the Skirball Museum, Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cheng|first1=Scarlet|title=Weisberg exhibition takes the long view|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-07-et-weisberg7-story.html|access-date=20 January 2017|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=May 7, 2007}}</ref> Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in over 190 group shows, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art, among other venues.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruth Weisberg|url=http://www.jackrutbergfinearts.com/artists/weisberg.html|publisher=Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc.|accessdate=20 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Korn|first1=Paula|title=Ruth Weisberg, an artist in Many Mediums, Exhibits Works Worldwide|url=https://news.usc.edu/11696/Ruth-Weisberg-an-artist-in-Many-Mediums-Exhibits-Works-Worldwide/|accessdate=20 January 2017|publisher=News USC|date=June 2, 1997}}</ref>

===Collections=== Weisberg's work is in over 60 museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other national and international institutions.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruth Weisberg|url=https://roski.usc.edu/community/faculty/ruth-weisberg|website=Roski School of Art and Design|publisher=University of Southern California|accessdate=20 January 2017}}</ref> She received her BFA and MFA degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruth Weisberg (American, born 1942)|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/ruth-weisberg/biography|publisher=Artnet|accessdate=20 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Collections: Weisberg, Ruth|newspaper=The Art Institute of Chicago |url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/artist/Weisberg,+Ruth|publisher=Art Institute Chicago|accessdate=20 January 2017}}</ref>

==Awards and honors== Weisberg has received several honors and awards for her work including the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award 2009;<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruth Weisberg|url=http://www.danaddington.com/addingtongallery/weisberg/weisberg.html|publisher=Addington Gallery|accessdate=20 January 2017}}</ref> a Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International 2015;<ref>{{cite web|last1=Levine|first1=Debra|title=USC's Ruth Weisberg honored with esteemed printmaking award|date=20 March 2015 |url=http://artsmeme.com/2015/03/20/ruth-weisberg-honored-with-esteemed-printmaking-award/|publisher=ArtsMeme|accessdate=20 January 2017}}</ref> the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award 2011; an Honorary Doctorate, Hebrew Union College, 2001<ref>{{cite web|title=USC Hillel|url=http://www.uschillel.org/uschillel/board/board-dr-ruth-weisberg/|website=Dr. Ruth Weinberg|publisher=University of Southern California|accessdate=20 January 2017}}</ref> and the College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|title=Distinguished Teaching of Art Awards|url=http://www.collegeart.org/awards/teachingpast|publisher=College Arts Association|accessdate=20 January 2017}}</ref>

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