Ruby Lerner

{{short description|American arts executive}}

Ruby Lerner is an American arts executive. She ran Creative Capital, an arts foundation, from 1999 to 2016.{{cite web|title=Creative Capital Chooses Susan Delvalle as President and Executive Director|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/arts/design/creative-capital-chooses-susan-delvalle-as-president-and-executive-director.html|work=The New York Times|accessdate=26 May 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/creative-capital-awards-nearly-4-4-million-in-arts-grants/|title=Creative Capital Awards Nearly $4.4 Million in Arts Grants|work=The New York Times|accessdate=26 May 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thestranger.com/feature/2016/03/30/23883172/how-creative-capital-replaced-the-nea-and-taught-artists-to-be-ambitious|title=How Creative Capital Replaced the NEA and Taught Artists to Be Ambitious|work=The Stranger|accessdate=26 May 2016}} Under her leadership, Creative Capital committed $40 million in financial and advisory support to 511 projects representing 642 artists.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thestranger.com/feature/2016/03/30/23883172/how-creative-capital-replaced-the-nea-and-taught-artists-to-be-ambitious|title=How Creative Capital Replaced the NEA and Taught Artists to Be Ambitious|newspaper=The Stranger|access-date=2016-12-08}} She stepped down from the organization in June 2016.

Beginning in January 2017, Lerner became the inaugural Herberger Institute Policy Fellow at Arizona State University and Senior Fellow to the Patty Disney Center for Life and Work at CalArts.{{cite web|title=Creative Capital Chooses Susan Delvalle as President and Executive Director|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/arts/design/creative-capital-chooses-susan-delvalle-as-president-and-executive-director.html|work=The New York Times|accessdate=26 May 2016}}

She serves on the board of directors for Light Industry in Brooklyn, New York. She is also on national advisory boards for the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California; the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, North Carolina; the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; The University of Kentucky Art Museum; and SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine. She serves on the exhibition committee for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.{{Citation needed|date=May 2016}}

Lerner studied comparative religion at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, where she currently serves on the Art Advisory Committee.{{Citation needed|date=May 2016}}