Ruth Weisberg
Professor of Art, University of Southern California

​Ruth Weisberg, artist, was born and raised in Chicago. She has Undergraduate and Masters degrees from the University of Michigan as well as a Laurea from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, Italia. In addition Weisberg spent a year at Atelier 17 in Paris. She is a Professor and the former Dean at the Roski School of Fine Arts University of Southern California, and received the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011, and she was the recipient of the Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009, Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Hebrew Union College, 2001, College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award 1999, Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome 2011, 1995, 1994, and 1992.