Lynn Rippeto Schwartz Cox

From an early age, art was a direction that I would pursue. I was encouraged by, and I am grateful to, Miss Ila Zoe Bickell. I'm a grad of OU with a BFA. I've painted for years as my livelihood. My paintings are currrently showing at the Linda Howell Gallery in OKC.

I closed a my one-woman show in January, 2010. It was for the OSU Foundation, with precent of sales for art students to study in Taos, NM. Two years ago I ws honored to exhibit at the Governor's Gallery at the State Capitol.

I serve on the Arts and Humanities Council and have served for 5 years on the board of the Multigraphics Center of Stillwater. I am a member of the Kansas Watercolor Society and the International Society of Acrylic Painters.

Grandad gave me his Model A Ford when I was 16. I placed bricks behind the back wheels to keep from rolling down the hill on the north side of Harding.

Dancing in the aisles at the Fats Domino concert at the Municipal Auditorium as a Courtesy Club usher (circa 1958).

Losing a contact lens at a footfall game. The Debettes dispersed like a scattered "block of green" - but no luck.

Another "lost lens" at Jody West Roach's lake cabin where Scott Poole and I fell off the dock (this one was a lot more difficult to explain to Mom and Dad).

Sneaking Sam Williamson into the Drive-In hidden in the trunk of the car.