Trained as a painter, by 1971 Ruth became a sculptor exploring the human torso. She worked with clay from 1971 to 1990.

After a workshop in mold making at an International Sculpture Conference In Washington, DC in 1990, Ruth switched to bronze. Concentrating on exploring the female torso in its many complexities. She continues to use bronze because of its permanence and flexibility. The sculptures vary in size and scale from larger than life to breast paperweights as small as three inches in diameter.

The public sculpture with which she is now deeply involved continued to explore the female torso on a larger-than-life scale. Fabricated in steel, they are celebrations expressed in dance and painted in a vivid red.

Education 1954: B.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago.