Lydia Ruyle

Lydia Ruyle, M.A. is an artist, author, scholar emerita of the Visual Arts faculty of the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado where the Lydia Ruyle for Women’s Art was dedicated in 2010. Her research into sacred images of women has taken her around the globe. Ruyle creates and exhibits her art and does workshops throughout the U.S. and internationally. Her Goddess Icon Spirit Banners, which made their debut at Ephesus, Turkey in 1995, have flown in over forty countries and at many sacred sites including Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Chartres, Kathmandu, Putuoshan, Ghost Ranch, Jeju Island. Her art is in more than thirty books. Goddess Icons Spirit Banners of the Divine Feminine was published in 2002, Turkey Goddess Icon Spirit Banners of the Divine Feminine was published in Istanbul in 2005.