2014 Circle of Honor - Ruthe Blalock Jones

2014 Circle of Honor

Honoring Ruthe Blalock Jones

Ruthe Blalock Jones, of Shawnee-Delaware-Peoria descent, began her work as an artist at age 10 under the tutelage of Charles Banks Wilson. She attended Bacone College in Muskogee, Okla., and earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the University of Tulsa in 1972. In 2011, she was appointed commissioner of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board by the Department of the Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar. She is director emeritus and associate professor of art at Bacone College.

Her works focus on the traditional American Indian ceremonial and social events. They are recorded in paintings, drawings, limited-edition prints in linoleum block, woodcut and serigraphs. Select collections of her art are at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and Sam Noble Museum at the University of Oklahoma in Norman; the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Ariz.; the Museum of the American Indian in New York; Hampton University in Virginia; and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

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