Ruth Lantz is a visual artist whose paintings and works on paper explore the collision between 19th-century American landscape painting and the digital environments we now inhabit.She earned her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art and a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lantz has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions across the United States, including shows at ARC Gallery, Northern Illinois University, Governors State University, Portland International Airport, and the Rockford Art Museum. Her work has also been included in regional biennials and exhibitions at the Evansville Museum of History, Science, and Art, the St. Louis Artists Guild, the Indianapolis Art Center, and the Freeport Art Museum, among others.Her practice has been featured in New City Magazine, Art Ltd., and ArtDose, as well as in the Making a Better Painting and I Like Your Work catalogs. She has received support from the Illinois Arts Council, the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.A committed educator and community builder, Lantz has taught at institutions including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Washington State University Vancouver, and Portland Community College. She is also the founder of Crit Connection, a grassroots initiative pairing artists for monthly critique and dialogue. Her work is held in both public and private collections, including the City of Portland Portable Works Collection, Linfield College, and Portland Community College