Nationally known artist-educator Ruthe Blalock Jones is named 2011 Red Earth Honored One
Ruthe Blalock Jones doesn't recall ever aspiring to become an artist. That's just what she always was.
“I remember as a child, I never said ‘I'm going to be an artist' or ‘When I grow up I will be.' I always said, ‘I am.' I never thought that was unusual, but I guess it was,” Jones said in a phone interview from her Muskogee home.
If she wasn't painting from the time she was old enough to grasp ...
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