Ruth Wallen

Ruth Wallen, www.ruthwallen.net, is a multi-media artist and writer whose work is dedicated to encouraging dialogue around ecological and social justice. After working as an environmental scientist, she turned to art to pose questions beyond disciplinary boundaries, address values informing environmental policy, and contribute to the developing field of ecological art. Her photographs, interactive installations, nature walks, web sites, artist books, performative lectures, and writing have been widely distributed and exhibited in the United States and abroad. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana, and is currently core faculty in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College and an emeritus lecturer at UCSD.