Ruth Keffer Email & Phone Number

San Francisco

Copy editor and proofreader for collection and exhibition labels, gallery texts, publications, education projects, and marketing/press materials.

Editor, writer, and curator. Expertise in art, architecture and design, including architectural photography, experimental design, graphic design, artists and the built environment, and media art. Copy editor for the 2017 and 2013 collection catalogues for Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul; proofreader for the 2014 monograph "Georg Jensen: Reflections" published by Rizzoli; editor on the 2010 book "Pro Bono: 40 Stories by Architects and their Clients" published by Metropolis and Public Architecture; editorial assistant on the 2009 publication "Tiny Houses" by Mimi Zeiger, and its 2011 sequel "Micro Green: Tiny Houses in Nature," both published by Rizzoli. Artist and designer. I create vivid, playful patterns and graphics suitable for textiles, wallpaper, housewares, accessories, stationery, and, of course, pure decoration. Indulge in color!

Seattle, Wa

Copy editor for special exhibitions; editor and writer for director's office special projects.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Editor of numerous exhibition catalogues, including "Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors," 2017; "Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits,"​ 2016; "Three Michigan Architects," 2015; "HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection,"​ 2015; "Reductive Minimalism: Women Artists in Dialogue,"​ 2014; and "Florencia Pita,"​ 2013. Also edited gallery texts and magazine articles. Guest curator for select permanent collection installations, including works by Julian Schnabel, Jeanne Gang, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Wilson, and Jordan Eagles.

Edited the Urban Field Notes essay and photo feature for SPUR's monthly magazine, The Urbanist, from 2008-11, and served as the magazine's proofreader. Curated the exhibition "DIY Urbanism: Testing the Grounds for Social Change" in 2010, and co-organized the exhibition "Agents of Change: Civic Idealism and the Making of San Francisco" in 2009.

San Francisco

Curated or helped curated more than thirty exhibitions of architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, furniture, fashion, painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and media art, including: "Alexander Girard: Vibrant Modern,"​ "Belles Lettres: The Art of Typography,"​ and "Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture."