Elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1977, Ruth Tulviny, R.C.A., is an artist/painter/printmaker who was born in Estonia, came to Canada with her mother, Hilda Mikkelsaar, and worked as a domestic in order to attend the Ontario College of Art, where she won the Lt. Governor’s Medal upon graduation in 1962. After completing other studies at l’Academie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, and at the California College of Art, Oakland, Ruth embarked on a career of painting. Her solo exhibitions have travelled across Canada, U.S.A., France, England, Sweden, Estonia, and China. Ruth has also served as President, Ontario Society of Artists. Formerly a teacher of painting and printmaking, Ontario College of Art (1965-’73), Ruth received, in 1966, the National Academy of Design (U.S.A.) Award. In this view she is standing in front of  “Butterfly of Davis #16,” an acrylic painted in 1993 while she was artist in residence at the Neuroscience Centre, Davis Campus, University of California. [Photo, courtesy Ruth Tulviny]