The Ruskin Art Club

08/21/2026

RUSKIN AFTER 200: THINKING WITH RUSKIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY PANEL DISCUSSION WITH AMY WOODSON-BOULTON, DEANNA KREISEL, AND SARA ATWOOD
Saturday, August 22, 2026

08/21/2026

Ruskin Study Sessions on Modern Painters V [on Zoom]
Saturday, September 12, 2026
10:00 AM 11:30 AM
As we did last year, we will spend the next twelve months studying and reflecting on a single Ruskin work, this time, Modern Painters Vol. V (Volume 7 in the Library Edition). Modern Painters was written over the period of 17 years (1843-1860) reflecting the evolution of Ruskin's thinking about aesthetics in the broadest sense. (Volume four, for example, focuses on the topography of mountains and the fifth on botanical forms.) Volume V comes not only as a summation of Ruskin's epic defense of Turner but the harbinger of his shift from art criticism to economics and social reform that will find its clearest expression in the four essays of Unto this Last (1860).

We will examine Volume VII of the Library Edition (PDF pagination in parentheses): Ch. 8, Wouvermans and Angelico, pp. 374-388 (2765-2776) this session.

Please find the link to the Library Edition of Volumes III-VII below:

08/21/2026

Ruskin Study Sessions on Modern Painters V [on Zoom]
Saturday, August 29, 2026
10:00 AM 11:30 AM
As we did last year, we will spend the next twelve months studying and reflecting on a single Ruskin work, this time, Modern Painters Vol. V (Volume 7 in the Library Edition). Modern Painters was written over the period of 17 years (1843-1860) reflecting the evolution of Ruskin's thinking about aesthetics in the broadest sense. (Volume four, for example, focuses on the topography of mountains and the fifth on botanical forms.) Volume V comes not only as a summation of Ruskin's epic defense of Turner but the harbinger of his shift from art criticism to economics and social reform that will find its clearest expression in the four essays of Unto this Last (1860).

We will examine Volume VII of the Library Edition (PDF pagination in parentheses): Ch. 7, Of Vulgarity, pp. 343-362 (2744-2764) this session.

Please find the link to the Library Edition of Volumes III-VII below:

08/21/2026

RUSKIN AFTER 200: THINKING WITH RUSKIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY PANEL DISCUSSION WITH AMY WOODSON-BOULTON, DEANNA KREISEL, AND SARA ATWOOD
Saturday, August 22, 2026
10:00 AM 11:30 AM

03/25/2026

As we did last year, we will spend the next twelve months studying and reflecting on a single Ruskin work, this time, Modern Painters Vol. V (Volume 7 in the Library Edition). Modern Painters was written over the period of 17 years (1843-1860) reflecting the evolution of Ruskin's thinking about aesthetics in the broadest sense. (Volume four, for example, focuses on the topography of mountains and the fifth on botanical forms.) Volume V comes not only as a summation of Ruskin's epic defense of Turner but the harbinger of his shift from art criticism to economics and social reform that will find its clearest expression in the four essays of Unto this Last (1860).

03/25/2026

Ruskin Study Sessions on Modern Painters V [on Zoom]
Saturday, April 18, 2026
10:00 AM 11:30 AM

02/04/2026

FIELD TRIP: Craft in America Center
Saturday, February 21, 2026
11:00 AM 1:00 PM
FIELD TRIP: Craft in America Center [8415 W. 3rd Street, Los Angeles 90048] EXHIBITION: "TOOLS OF THE TRADES: AMERICAN HANDMADE TOOLS AND DEVICES" with presentations by master blacksmith and tool expert Heather McLardy and collector Max Grossman. More information at http://www.craftinamerica.org/page/center.

02/04/2026

Annual RUSKIN BIRTHDAY BASH at Telescope Studio [IN PERSON]
Saturday, February 7, 2026
7:00 PM 8:30 PM
Annual RUSKIN BIRTHDAY BASH at Telescope Studio (downtown LA arts district) featuring poets Suzanne Lummis, Judith Pacht, and former LA City Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson. Cellist Allan Hon and pianist Alex Zhu will perform music by Rachmaninoff, Frank Bridge, Alex Zhu, and John Ruskin!

Suzanne Lummis' fourth collection, Crime Wave (Giant Claw), is included in Literary Hub's end-of-year 100 Notable Small Press Books, 2025, where reviewer Angela Chaidez Vincent called it "Savvy, Robust, Relentless." She edited Poetry Goes to the Movies (Pacific Coast Poetry Series/Beyond Baroque Books) with well-known poets of L.A. and across the nation. Both books were included in Mike Sonksen's 25 Best L.A. Centric Books of 2025 on the significant website L.A. Taco. Her poems have appeared in noted literary journals and in The New Yorker.
The annual toast to Mr. Ruskin and a festive dessert reception following. An in-person event, open to the public. Parking available in front of the studio and in the valet parking lot across the street. Address: 2125 Bay Street, Los Angeles 90021. Please register at

Jan 17 10:00 AM10:00 William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love with Philip H***e Saturday, January 17, 2026 10:00 AM 11:30 AM 10:00 11:30 Google Calendar ICS In 1878, in the hours before he lost his hold on sanity in his villa on Coniston Water, John Ruskin looked at the Blakes on his walls a...

01/12/2026

William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love with Philip H***e
Saturday, January 17, 2026
10:00 AM- 11:30 AM
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