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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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Ruby Roth

Flom­mist Ruby Roth is an artist, designer, creative strategist, and the author-illustrator of four leading books for kids. Her work has been featured on Today, CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC News, and other major media outlets.‬

Ruby Roth
Fri 21 Aug 2026

this is not for men

    I am not think­ing about you. Whole women play for them­selves. We adorn the ves­sel we’ve got …   … Be it “too

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Mon 9 Mar 2026

oversight

  While   lis­ten­ing   to Krusty Gnome’s                        full tes­ti­mo­ny be­fore Sen­ate Ju­di­cia­ry Com­mit­tee,   I wish the Q&As                        were so so­phis­ti­cat­ed that

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Wed 29 Oct 2025

back to life

                                  10 min                 fine art mod­el: eve                 at unin­struct­ed fig­ure draw­ing                                   25 min                 fine art mod­el: eve                 at uninstructed

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Fri 24 Oct 2025

gmorning

                                                                                … a lit­tle warmer now.                 These were all 30 sec — 2 min drawn from video model. 

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Wed 27 Aug 2025

broken bad

    The tan­gi­ble sense of  un­prece­dence in the at­mos­phere  trig­gers a re­sponse. But we know if can’t be knee-jerk —     we

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Mon 25 Aug 2025

farm day

  Mo­bi­liz­ing with the com­mu­ni­ty to fend off Co­conut Rhi­no Bee­tle …   be­fore the de­struc­tion starts.                                      step 1: Spread

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Tue 8 Jul 2025

mood lighting: nü werks in new orleans

A word on tim­ing and mean­ing —     My tro­phy mo­ments have a com­i­cal knack for ar­riv­ing along­side some bull­shit: My first

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Tue 10 Jun 2025

muchly

Got­ta pause on peace­ful art to com­ment: I’m made on Kauai, born in Los An­ge­les — two of the biggest melt­ing pots and vastly

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Tue 22 Apr 2025

a note on earth day

For over a decade, children’s books about per­son­al and plan­e­tary well­be­ing were my fo­cus. I wrote the first non-fic­­tion books of their kind. 

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Sun 9 Mar 2025

b+mb the systems 2: severing the feminine from her own knowing

In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day, my ass. While in­di­vid­ual women dis­cov­er how to tran­scend cen­­turies-old sup­pres­sion of the fem­i­nine,  we are far torn from giving

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Sat 8 Mar 2025

b+mb the systems

  WHEN   I imag­ine a NEW EARTH   I imag­ine that it will first be   the en­er­gy of  FEM­I­NINE RAGE    that rais­es our BROKEN

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Tue 12 Mar 2024

march 21 in los angeles: live figure workshop – ‘learning to see’

Learn­ing to draw is not about tal­ent, it’s about learn­ing to see; and learn­ing to see is about shift­ing your perceptions –

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Sun 7 Jan 2024

at the heart of your deepest, darkest challenge

In the past cou­ple weeks, two sep­a­rate peo­ple said they think of me as “fear­less.” They’re right and wrong.   I’ve done some

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Wed 29 Nov 2023

brand nü: boss inside

  I am invit­ing you clos­er into my life than I ever have with any oth­er piece of art or writ­ing. I

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Fri 3 Nov 2023

receiving

Be­ing in prob­lem-solv­ing mode is an ar­che­typ­i­cal­ly mas­cu­line state on the spec­trum.  It took me many years to no­tice that my life

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Tue 27 Jun 2023

year of reconciliation

Last year, I want­ed to be in a new state phys­i­cal­ly and men­tal­ly when hit 40 on June 27, 2022.  I got what

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Mon 5 Jun 2023

bound: bones + bodies

  This is a short film about some­thing I’ve NEV­ER shared pre­vi­ous­ly,  that shaped my iden­ti­ty and ca­reer in both chil­drens’ books and

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Sun 2 Apr 2023

bittersweet condition

  Send­ing y’all love who are hav­ing a rough time. 🖤   What feels like back­slid­ing may ac­tu­al­ly just be the nat­ur­al course of

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Sun 19 Mar 2023

a drawing meditation

                               In­creas­ing­ly, I un­der­stand that any­thing we see has only the mean­ing we’ve giv­en it.                                That la­bel­ing a per­son, a state, or

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Fri 24 Feb 2023

bang bang girls

                                Through­out ado­les­cence, my sketch­books were filled with su­per­heroines.  Tank girls, girls with guns … Women in their pow­er.  Lat­er, my sense of

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Tue 14 Feb 2023

public service announcement

Peo­ple tell me their se­crets.  And here’s a com­mon one —  many women make sex all about a man’s plea­sure and then go home to

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Mon 17 Oct 2022

antidote

Van Gogh’s man­ic de­pres­sion would be ex­tra ma­ni­a­cal right now.  For so many rea­sons.   I don’t know what I hate more …  en­vi­ron­men­tal degradation

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Thu 26 May 2022

teddy bear

What good does be­ing dis­turbed by hu­man­i­ty do … ? I’ve al­ways felt it, as ear­ly as kinder­garten, when I saw these boys trap and

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Sat 19 Mar 2022

i wasn’t ever going to share this one

I made this vi­su­al in 2020 as a tool just for my­self.  It was how I en­vi­sioned hold­ing over­whelm­ing en­er­gy with my

Mor 

Ruby Roth
Sat 15 Jan 2022

wip

“Love makes life di­vine” … trick is to fos­ter it with or with­out any­one else’s pres­ence.       I told myself

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