Ruth Ost

Ruth Ost is Director of Temple University Honors Program and teaches in Religion and Women’s Studies. Her work and teaching (alongside her interest in Death and Dying) is in the area of art, ritual and gender. She has organized exhibitions and symposia such as: Art Interfaces with Computers; Revolutionary Perspectives in the Renaissance; and Peter Rockwell at the Frank Lloyd Wright Snowflake House. Most recently, she organized the show Altared Gender at the Temple Gallery (2002). She is currently working on a major exhibition of Shimon Attie’s White Nights, Sugar Dreams (with Laura Levitt and Kevin Melchionne). In addition, she and Kevin Melchionne are co-curating an exhibition on the year 1980 (2004), at the Temple Gallery. With Th. Emil Homerin, she is writing about Memory and Mourning, an exhibition at the Strong Museum, Rochester, New York. She has written and lectured on Helène Aylon.