Ruth Braunstein at the Christo Gates, Central Park, New York, 2005

Ruth Braunstein at the Christo Gates, Central Park, New York, 2005

The Ruth Braunstein Oral History Project

In 2014, Paul Karlstrom conducted an oral history project, consisting of five interviews with Ruth and fourteen with artists and art-world friends of Ruth, which has been accepted by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Following is an excerpt from his essay for a Fouladi Projects exhibition in her honor and quotes from the interviews:

 
Peter Voulkos printmaking at the Garner Tullis workshop in Emeryville, California, 1985. Photographed by Richard Tullis, courtesy of Voulkos & Co: Catalogue Project.

Peter Voulkos printmaking at the Garner Tullis workshop in Emeryville, California, 1985. Photographed by Richard Tullis, courtesy of Voulkos & Co: Catalogue Project.

VOULKoS

VOULKOS, new scholarship by Barbara Paris Gifford, Assistant Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, funded by the Ruth Braunstein Trust.

 
Ruth Braunstein photographed at Braunstein Quay Gallery c. 1980

Ruth Braunstein photographed at Braunstein Quay Gallery c. 1980

SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART

Interview with Ruth Braunstein, August 2009. Funding for this interview was provided by the Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation. Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.