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A Woman to Know: Ruth Faison Shaw

A Woman to Know: Ruth Faison Shaw

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Julia Carpenter
Apr 26, 2019
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Be free in your motions and bold in your colors. — Ruth Faison Shaw

(image via The North Carolina Digital Collections)


When Ruth caught one of her students smearing yellow iodine on the bathroom walls, she didn't get angry — she got an idea.

In the 1920s, the teacher from North Carolina had moved to Italy, where she set up an experimental art school, T…

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