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Ron Fritts has led a life motivated by the creative impulse. He was always making things, drawing and having to produce Art. Creativity became a question of personal integrity. “It was then that Art began to make sense and I continued to draw on every opportunity. I was going to be creatively motivated no matter what the cost and Art was to be my salvation.”

In 2005 his creative energy led him to locate in the Southwest with his wife to concentrate and further his painting. His goal remains: to capture the essence of life in each and every product that emerges from the extraordinary impulse to create and to produce a product for others to enjoy and reflect on and awaken the need for all to share in developing their own creativity. "Art for all and all for Art!"

Ron has accepted a teaching position at Cochise College to encourage others to develop their creativity. What you see now is the culmination of these disciplines in his effort to capture the enormous beauty of the Southwest and to share his vision.

Having won several art awards during public school years, Ron attended: Carnegie Institute to study fine art; Columbia University where he received a BFA in theater arts; The Cooper Union in New York to study painting; the U. of Cincinnati where he received a painting fellowship and was awarded an MFA.

Since then artistic efforts have been diverse. He was a visual merchandising designer in New York ; founded RF Studios, Inc. for national distribution of his art: concurrently founded Ron Fritts Soho, Inc and maintained a Madison Ave gallery for his art and designs.

A continuing creative instinct led him into the fashion world and the gallery became the Fritts Collection where his fashions were well received along with his art. The gallery lasted twenty seven years along with two other locations in Manhattan . He discontinued national distribution in order to focus attention on fashion design while developing his painting in a studio in Pa.

In addition to these business ventures, Ron was a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York for 37 years. In short, there has never been an unproductive period. “Everyone is born with the creative impulse not recognized by all, but some are fortunate to develop this creative energy. Every design, every piece of clothing, every drawing and every painting is an opportunity to express the beauty of life that surrounds us. For me, life and art are delicately bound and they continue to inspire my curiosity. It is through the use of diverse texture and subtle tonal changes that I try to
instill a painting with light and spirit.”

Ron has been juried into numerous shows and galleries back in the East and in Az . His work is in many private collections in the USA.

While on the web, reivew Ron's new book The Original Window . Ron views his book as an important statement about the unfortunate lack of Art education and a basic ignorance on the part of our educational leaders to not understand and incorporate creative thinking both in the younger generations and the world at large. "My book is an attempt to reach out and give inspiration to all who have lost the opportunity and feel repressed about being creative. It is not an art book as such. I use art to show how to be creative.