Ruth Blackwell Rogers

Artist, Teacher, Speaker, Shaman
ruth.blackwellrogers@gmail.com

Education

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MFA
• Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, BA
• Skowhegan School; Penland School
• Foundation for Shamanic Studies, weekend workshops, Two-week Intensive, and Three-Year Program in Advanced Shamanic Healing

Exhibitions

Over three dozen solo shows and many group shows since 1967, including:

• Museums in North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington DC
• Colleges and universities in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia
• Conferences in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Illinois, and West Virginia
• Galleries in Berlin, Germany, West Virginia, Washington DC, and North Carolina

Presentations

Presenter or keynote speaker at over a dozen conferences including:

• Art therapy associations in Chicago and Washington DC
• Jungian and transpersonal psychology associations in Washington DC, Atlanta, and Prague
• Social worker conferences in West Virginia
• Steiner Institute conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Along with husband Hugh Rogers, tour a storytelling presentation, “Four Worlds So Far,” the Hopi creation story, illustrated by the artist on a 210-foot scroll, hundreds of times in eastern US, Arizona, New Mexico, Montreal, Prague, and Germany

Experience

• Taught English at a Korean women’s university for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer
• Taught Art at Dana Hall School in Massachusetts
• Designed and built studio and passive solar home in West Virginia
• Raised, together with Hugh, three sons
• Involved with watershed and conservation issues in the West Virginia highlands
• President of Saranam Retreat Center, Montrose WV
• Shamanic healing practitioner

Why do I paint?  For the pure joy of it. To make visible what I see in my head. To put in physical form my gratitude and hopes and concerns and prayers for all beings. Because it is what I know how to do.