Ruth Gee grew up in the Andean Mountains among the Inca Indians of Bolivia, South America in a missionary family and was home schooled in English while speaking Spanish. Her first art class was as a Jr. in High School when moving back to Minnesota, though she confesses to having illustrated her crib and any blank surface she could find while growing up. These usually included every stucco wall in the house, book margins, the dust paths, her body, her playmates, and more appropriate spots like a 4x8 foot black board her parents painted for her bedroom when she was three. She remembers fondly...more
