About the Artist & Logo for this Site
Ruthie Basham Cisse received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Michigan in December 2001, graduating Magna Cum Laude. She was the recipient of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Award, which is awarded each semester to one graduating art student. Visit her website.
Currently residing in New York, NY, her artwork has traveled to private and public collections in Wellness Centers across the country and internationally to Toronto, Vancouver, London, and Tokyo. Her work is on permanent display at the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce, and she has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Adidas/Wanderlust Yoga Line Launch, Sotheby’s, and Barclay Center.
She is a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and the Phi Delta Epsilon lota for her academic and artistic achievements.
Ruth has received extensive training in Classical Ballet, was a student of the School of American Ballet in New York City, of the Washington School of the Ballet in Washington, D.C., of the Joffrey Midwest Ballet in Detroit, of the World Famous Ballerina Suzanne Farrell of the New York City Ballet, and has received two awards from the Royal Academy of Dancing in London, England. She has performed with the Washington Ballet and professionally with local Modern Dance Troupes. Ruth has studied many forms of West African and Afro-Cuban dance, drumming, Yoruba philosophy, costume, performance, and music.
She has also studied Yoga, Tai Chi, Chi Qong, Kung Fu, Chinese medicine, Shiatsu therapy, Hebrew Hassidism, Jewish Mysticism, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Christ Consciousness, Native American and Celtic Shamanism, Anatomy, Figure Drawing, Ceramics and Sculpture in Kyoto Seika University of Japan, Printmaking, Graphic Design, Digital Photography, Art and Dance Therapy, Flower Essences, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, and Reiki. She is certified to teach classes in Yoga, Meditation, Stress Management, Heavenly Travel, Couples Work, Gifts of the Spirit, Sacred Ritual, Sacred Divine Geometry, and other healing modalities. With her mother, Karen Greenberg, Ruth has studied Clair-Ascension, a process of uncovering limiting mental beliefs, releasing negative emotional patterns, and changing and reframing those beliefs, emotions, and patterns in order to connect spiritually for the purpose of full clarity and spiritual ascension. Ruth has also been a student of Kabbalah for the past two decades, ascending through the Tree of Life and all of its pathways.
All of Ruth's diverse background has come together to assist her in creating beautiful Wellness Mandalas. A Mandala represents the universe in its whole, enlightened state. Although the roots of the Mandala lie in the East, every culture holds some form of the Mandala. It is usually portrayed as a symmetrical image with a central point of focus, used for meditation, sacred ritual, and wellness. It is often referred to as being the architecture of enlightenment. In creating each Mandala, Ruth works with a medium of high-quality, oil-based Prismacolor pencils on acid-free, high-quality colored drawing paper.
Ruth asks to be a vessel for Spirit to guide her art for the purpose of serving the individual who is to receive the energy and opportunity to grow. Ruth is a facilitator of the sacred symbols, colors, and energies that flow through her to assist the recipients of each Mandala. The Personalized Logos and Wellness Mandalas are created for the abundance and success of a spiritual business, for the manifestation of health including healthy relationships, for developing connection and intuition, and for whatever is requested/required for the evolution and ascension of the individual. Each Wellness Mandala comes with a beautiful blessing note explaining the meaning of the sacred symbols.
Currently residing in New York, NY, her artwork has traveled to private and public collections in Wellness Centers across the country and internationally to Toronto, Vancouver, London, and Tokyo. Her work is on permanent display at the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce, and she has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Adidas/Wanderlust Yoga Line Launch, Sotheby’s, and Barclay Center.
She is a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and the Phi Delta Epsilon lota for her academic and artistic achievements.
Ruth has received extensive training in Classical Ballet, was a student of the School of American Ballet in New York City, of the Washington School of the Ballet in Washington, D.C., of the Joffrey Midwest Ballet in Detroit, of the World Famous Ballerina Suzanne Farrell of the New York City Ballet, and has received two awards from the Royal Academy of Dancing in London, England. She has performed with the Washington Ballet and professionally with local Modern Dance Troupes. Ruth has studied many forms of West African and Afro-Cuban dance, drumming, Yoruba philosophy, costume, performance, and music.
She has also studied Yoga, Tai Chi, Chi Qong, Kung Fu, Chinese medicine, Shiatsu therapy, Hebrew Hassidism, Jewish Mysticism, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Christ Consciousness, Native American and Celtic Shamanism, Anatomy, Figure Drawing, Ceramics and Sculpture in Kyoto Seika University of Japan, Printmaking, Graphic Design, Digital Photography, Art and Dance Therapy, Flower Essences, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, and Reiki. She is certified to teach classes in Yoga, Meditation, Stress Management, Heavenly Travel, Couples Work, Gifts of the Spirit, Sacred Ritual, Sacred Divine Geometry, and other healing modalities. With her mother, Karen Greenberg, Ruth has studied Clair-Ascension, a process of uncovering limiting mental beliefs, releasing negative emotional patterns, and changing and reframing those beliefs, emotions, and patterns in order to connect spiritually for the purpose of full clarity and spiritual ascension. Ruth has also been a student of Kabbalah for the past two decades, ascending through the Tree of Life and all of its pathways.
All of Ruth's diverse background has come together to assist her in creating beautiful Wellness Mandalas. A Mandala represents the universe in its whole, enlightened state. Although the roots of the Mandala lie in the East, every culture holds some form of the Mandala. It is usually portrayed as a symmetrical image with a central point of focus, used for meditation, sacred ritual, and wellness. It is often referred to as being the architecture of enlightenment. In creating each Mandala, Ruth works with a medium of high-quality, oil-based Prismacolor pencils on acid-free, high-quality colored drawing paper.
Ruth asks to be a vessel for Spirit to guide her art for the purpose of serving the individual who is to receive the energy and opportunity to grow. Ruth is a facilitator of the sacred symbols, colors, and energies that flow through her to assist the recipients of each Mandala. The Personalized Logos and Wellness Mandalas are created for the abundance and success of a spiritual business, for the manifestation of health including healthy relationships, for developing connection and intuition, and for whatever is requested/required for the evolution and ascension of the individual. Each Wellness Mandala comes with a beautiful blessing note explaining the meaning of the sacred symbols.