Ruth
Ruth Schimel started learning about art in elementary school when she was lucky to have enriched programs in art and music. Exploring museums and galleries since then, she continues learning and enjoying appreciating meanings and ideas. As resources permitted, she occasionally bought original art. Choices mirrored themes within herself, noticed later.
To loosen inspiration for writing her long-postponed dissertation on how people discover and express their capacity for courage, Ruth took a course for teaching children to draw. Expressing her arting side, she included a cartoon for the first of seven books: Choose Courage: Step Into the Life You Want. The theme of her PhD dissertation animates her continuing practice as a career and life management consultant for clients of all ages and backgrounds.
Recently, she started creating collages. Full of materials and related books, Ruth’s art table is now calling to keep experimenting.
Previous incarnations include teaching human resources in several universities, working as a foreign service officer at the Department of State and in Ecuador, India and Guatemala as well as management consulting for several organizations.
Currently, Ruth facilitates and designs programs from intergenerational connecting to storytelling. Her hundreds of guides for clients and published articles on personal and professional development are available as appropriate. Writing poetry since she was 21, she continues to speak Spanish.
To explore with her and access a range of resources including articles, poetry and her pithy monthly Newsletter related to recipients’ interests, visit https://www.ruthschimel.com. Reach out using her email address, ruth@ruthschimel.com.
Shari
Shari Garmise wakes up, mainlines coffee, walks her stubborn dog, pets her cat before she hides under the bed and misses her kid who has left her to go to college. She then heads to work to save cities within the four walls of an office, usually by email. After work, she writes, reads, serves on a few non-profit boards gets lost down a few rabbit holes on the internet (don’t we all) and sometimes has a glass of wine, because life needs wine sometimes. She believes that life is a journey into the possible and the mysterious and our creative selves and our relationship to the arts navigate us through this journey.
Shari finds blank slates and empty pages invigorating, sees beauty in art and science, fact and fiction, and moves forward with an urgency to make things happen. Writing had been her most consistent vehicle for creative expression, having written romances under several made up names, but now blogs and writes flash fiction. Since the pandemic, where she started Arting with Ruth, art has taken its place in her heart and mind as an equally powerful medium for personal growth, reflection and finding ways out and around the limitations of our own skin.
You can find her at https://sharigarmise.com.