Ruth Borgenicht
{{short description|American ceramic artist|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| name = Ruth Borgenicht
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| awards = New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship (2005)
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| parents =Jack Borgenicht
| relatives = Grace Borgenicht Brandt (stepmother)
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Ruth Borgenicht is an American ceramic artist who works mainly with chain mail forms made through a series of interlocking rings.
Biography
Borgenicht (b. 1967){{cite web |title=Ruth Borgenicht |url=https://emuseum.delart.org/people/4612/ruth-borgenicht |website=Delaware Art Museum |access-date=10 June 2021 |language=en}} is the daughter of Jack Borgenicht (previously married to Grace Borgenicht Brandt).{{Cite news|title= Jacob 'Jack' Borgenicht, 93, businessman, preservationist|newspaper=New Jersey Hills Media Group|date=September 1, 2015 |url= https://www.newjerseyhills.com/jacob-jack-borgenicht-businessman-preservationist/article_d7c705e0-dab9-5257-b066-c7ca5cfca113.html }} She graduated in 1991 from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics.{{Cite web|title= Ruth Borgenicht |website=Artnet|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/ruth-borgenicht/biography }} In 2016, she received an M.F.A. from Montclair State University. She has exhibited internationally at such locations as Carouge, Switzerland, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Chicago. She lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.{{Cite news|title=Common objects, clever views |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=March 9, 2008 |url= https://www.inquirer.com/philly/local/pa/main_line_delaware/nabes/20080309_Common_objects__clever_views_2.html }} She has two children, Marcella and Eli.{{Cite news|title= B'nai Mitzva for July 2018 |newspaper=New Jersey Jewish News|date=July 5, 2018 |url=https://njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/bnai-mitzva-for-july-2018/ }}{{Cite web|first=Shomrei |last=Emunah |title=Marcella Borgenicht, Bat Mitzvah |website=Kol Emunah - The Voice of Shomrei Emunah|date=May 6, 2015 |url=http://www.kolemunah.net/jlc-hebrew-school/marcella-borgenicht-bat-mitzvah/ }}
References
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External links
- [http://ruthborgenicht.com/ artist website]
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Category:American women ceramists
Category:Jewish American artists
Category:Rutgers University alumni
Category:21st-century American women artists
Category:21st-century American ceramists
Category:21st-century American Jews
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