Los Angeles gallery owners Stuart and Beverly Denenberg share life-journeys through the worlds of art and historic preservation and, along the way, the discovery of Ruskin.

John Ruskin was an early champion and mentor to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's poets and painters. The Ruskin Art Club's Sara Atwood and Gabriel Meyer lead a lively, wide-ranging discussion of the influential movement's intersections with Ruskinian thought with Karl Merrick, trustee and podcast editor of the Pre-Raphaelite Society of the UK. For Karl's corresponding podcast interview with Sara and Gabriel, visit the Pre-Raphaelite Society website: www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org.

Professor Claudio Silveira Amaral, with his background in architecture and urbanism, discusses John Ruskin's influence, through figures such as polymath Rui Barbosa and architect Sérgio Ferro, on Brazilian education, architecture, and culture. Moderated by Ruskin Art Club's Executive Director Gabriel Meyer and joined by Joseph Rodrigues.

Prof. Sara Atwood teaches literature and writing at Portland State University and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her academic work on Ruskin and Victorian literature has been widely published. She is a Companion of the Guild of St. George in the UK and a board member of the Ruskin Art Club of Los Angeles.

David Judson, president of Judson Studios and Ruskin Art Club board member, charts his family's historic engagement in architectural glass with insights drawn from Ruskin. For more information of Judson Studios, visit https://www.judsonstudios.com/To purchase David Judson's 2020 book "JUDSON: Innovation in Stained Glass," visit https://www.judsonstudios.com/product/judson-innovation-in-stained-glass/

Dinah Birch is a distinguished English literary critic and leading Ruskin scholar. Acclaimed for her ground-breaking work on the topic of Ruskin and gender, Prof. Birch delivered the Ruskin Art Club's 2023 "Ruskin" Lecture at USC, available on our YouTube channel: www. youtube.com/@ruskinartclub. She speaks with Ruskin Today's Gabriel Meyer.

Ruskin Today interviews LA City's Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson on the nexus of art and civic life. Interviewed by Ruskin Art Club Literary Programs Director, poet Elena Karina Byrne.

Veteran US Ruskin scholar Jim Spates discusses a lifelong fascination with the thought of John Ruskin -- "the sociologist I had been waiting for all my life." With Gabriel Meyer and Zach Bullock.

Dean of Ruskin scholars and cultural historian Robert Hewison speaks to Ruskin Today's Gabriel Meyer on his life in Ruskin studies and on the modern revival of interest in the great Victorian polymath.

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