
Past exhibitions
since 2016
Highlights from LYDIA RUYLE EXHIBITIONS
Goddess Conference
Glastonbury England - 1997 - 2025
Lydia Ruyle’s Sacred Banners Pop-Up Art Exhibit Selçuk Ephesus Urban Memory Museum
Ephesus, Turkey - October 7th, 2024
Goddess Within Retreats at Vista Celestial
Uvita, Costa Rica — 2023 & 2024
Herstory Retold: An Evening of Art & Lively Conversation with Elizabeth Lesser at ALTAR Community
Chicago, IL — April 2024
Little Altars Everywhere: The Goddess Banners of Lydia Ruyle
University of Northern Colorado, CO — March 2022
Goddesses-In-Residence at ALTAR Community
Chicago, IL — December 2021 through March 2022

Lydia Ruyle Selected Exhibitions
years 1995-2015
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Coming soon, we’re digging through archives.
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Goddess Banners & Retreat at Womb with a View
Embracing the Waves of Change
With Apela Colorado, Kathy Jones, Lydia Ruyle
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii
January 3-7, 2010Goddess Banners at Women of Wisdom
17th Annual Conference in Women’s Spirituality
February 11-15, 2010Goddess Banners at Seattle Unity Church & North Seattle Community College
Seattle, WashingtonGoddess Banners & Speaker at Pathfinders
Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs
Thunderbird Country Club
March 22, 2010
Rancho Mirage, CaliforniaGoddess Banners & Speaker at the National Organization for Women Fundraiser
March 27, 2010
West Hollywood, CaliforniaGoddess Banners at The Green Goddess Conference
Association for the Study of Women & Mythology
Kirkridge Retreat Center
April 23-25, 2010
Bangor, PennsylvaniaGoddess Banners at Internazionale Goddess Kongress
International Congress on Spirituality and Politics
Hambacher Schloss
May 24-30, 2010
Frankfurt, GermanyGoddess Banners at Spanish Goddess Conference
September 24-27, 2010
Madrid, SpainGoddess Banners at GAIA Goddess Conference
Albert Waterways Community Centre
October 15-17, 2010
Broad Beach, Australia -
Goddess Banners at 15th Goddess Conference
Goddess as Lover
July 28-August 1, 2009
Glastonbury UK -
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Goddess Banners at Feile Bride / Brigid’s Feast
Sanctuary Retreat Center, Beallsville MD
January 28-29, 2005Goddess Banners at Sacred Sisterhood
Women’s Integral Center for Italian and French Black Madonnas
With Mary Beth Moser, Seattle WA
February 2, 2005Goddess Banners in Brazil
Morgenlicht Retreat Center
February 9-17, 2005Goddess Banners & The Goddess, Creativity & YOU ! Workshop
Women of Wisdom Conference, Seattle, WA
February 16-21, 2005Herstory of the Goddess: Women’s Spirituality and Art
Maymester Course taught by Lydia Ruyle and guests
University of Colorado at Boulder
May 9-27, 2005Goddess Banners at 26th Annual Women’s Studies National Conference
Women & Spirituality Section, Orlando, Florida
June 9-12, 2005Goddess Banners at Tapping the Energy for Change: The Black Madonna and the Womb of God
With China Galland
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
June 18, 2005Goddess Banners at Goddess Conference
Sponsored by Turkish Friends of Catalhoyuk
Ephesus Museum, Turkey
July 20-23, 2005Goddess Banners at The Goddess Conference
Glastonbury England
July 27-31, 2005Goddess Banners at 2nd World Congress on Matriarchal Studies
With Genevieve Vaughan and Heide Gottner-Abendroth
San Marcos / Austin, Texas
September 29–October 2, 2005Goddess Conversations with Meinrad Craighead & Lydia Ruyle
Florence, Italy
October 22-30, 2005Lydia Ruyle Retrospective
Tointon Gallery—Union Colony Civic Center
Greeley, CO
October 26-November 30, 2005Goddess Banners at Michigan Festival of Sacred Music
Kalamazoo, MI
November 11-13, 2005 -
Islands of the Goddess: A women’s pilgrimage to Hawaii
Oahu, Kauai, Hawaii
January 22-30, 2004Goddess Banners at West Coast Premiere of Signs Out of Time
A film about Marija Gimbutas’ work & life
Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
February 1, 2004Goddess Banners at Feile Bride / Brigid’s Feast
Sanctuary Retreat Center, Beallsville MD
February 1, 2004Goddess Banners at Isis Navigatum
Los Angeles, CA
March 6, 2004Goddess Banners & Workshop at Can We Talk?
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
March 11-12, 2004Goddess Banners & Slides
liff School of Theology / University of Denver, CO
March 19, 2004Goddess Banners in Brazil
Morgenlicht Retreat Center
April 2-9, 2004Goddess Banners & Descent to the Dark Goddess
Family of Christ Presbyterian Church, Greeley, CO
April 17, 2004Goddess Banners at March for Women’s Lives
Washington DC
April 25, 2004Goddess Banners at Czech Goddess Festival
Skala u Doks, Czech Republic
April 29-May 2, 2004Goddess Banners at Mythic Journeys Exhibition & Conference
The DeFoor Art Centre Gallery, Atlanta GA
May 1-June 12, 2004Goddess Banners at Womanspirit Conference
North Carolina
May 15, 2004Goddess Banners at International Symposium on Neolithic Signs & Symbols
The Institute of Archaeomythology and The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences
Novi Sad, Serbia
May 24-June 2, 2004Goddess Banners at International Symposium
Female Mysteries of the Substratum
The Institute of Archaeomythology and the New Bulgarian University
Sofia / Rila Monastery / Bulgaria
June 2-13, 2004Goddess Banners & Workshop at ARTSOURCE
Eagle Rock School, Estes Park Colorado
June 20-21, 2004Goddess Banners at The Goddess Conference
Glastonbury, England
July 28-August 1, 2004Goddess Banners at Healing Retreat with Brazilian Healer Edemir
Eastern Shore, Maryland
September 12 & 23, 2004Goddess Banners at UCLA’s Fowler Museum
Signs Out of Time, A film about Marija Gimbutas’ work & life
Los Angeles, CA
September 18, 2004Goddess Banners of the Southwest
20th Anniversary Celebration Four Corners School of Outdoor Education
Denver, CO
October 2, 2004Goddess Banners / Workshop
Jack & Shirley Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
October 4-5, 2004Goddess Banners at 20th Anniversary Celebration
Hildegard of Bingen International Symposium
Ball State University, Muncie, IN
October 6-9, 2004Goddess Banners & Workshop
Gather the Women International Conference, Dallas, TX
October 15-17, 2004Goddess Banners at Marin Services for Women Celebration
San Rafael, CA
October 21-22, 2004Goddess Banners with Starhawk & Donna Read
Naropa School of Extended Studies, Boulder, CO
October 23-24, 2004Goddess Banners in Brazil
Morgenlicht Retreat Center
November 5-13, 2004Goddess Banners at Gift Economy Conference
Clark County Library, Las Vegas, NV
November 13-14, 2004Goddess Banners at Goddess on the Mountaintop
Christchurch, New Zealand
November 1-14, 2004Goddess Banners at HIV/AIDS Widows Conference
Kisumu, Kenya
November 18-30, 2004Goddess Banners at Hildegard of Bingen Concert
With Margaret Waddell
St. Louis, MO
December 5, 2004Goddess Banners
Want to Know Club Christmas Tea
Ft. Collins, CO
December 15, 2004 -
Goddess Icons Book Signing & Slide Talk
Celebration New Age Book Store, Colorado Springs, CO
January 13, 2003Goddess Banners Bridging Time and Space
Society of Layerists in Multi-Media
Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, CO
January 24-March 1, 2003Goddess Banners at Feile Bride
Sanctuary Retreat Center, Beallsville, MD
February 1, 2003Sheela-na-gig Banners at Weld County Women & Girls
Imagine a World Without Violence
In conjunction with: The Vagina Monologues
Union Colony Civic Center, Greeley, CO
February 26-March 5, 2003Faces of the Goddess: Creating Sacred Images
Art Workshop at The Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
March 1-2, 2003Goddess Banners at Isis Navigatum Spring Equinox Festival
Japanese Gardens, Van Nuys, CA
March 1, 2003Goddess Banners at Signs Out of Time
Film preview for Marija Gimbutas’ story
Bodhi Tree Bookstore, West Hollywood, CA
March 8, 2003Goddess Banners at the 5th Biennial Mexican American Immigrant Conference
Boise State University, Boise, ID
March 11-12, 2003A Gathering of Goddesses
All Soul’s Unitarian Universalist Church, Kansas City, MO
March 15, 2003Goddess Banners & Workshop for National Women’s History Month
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
March 19-20, 2003Goddess Banners Down Under
Melbourne, Australia
March 21-22, 2003Goddess Banners & Workshop
Cerritos Community College, Long Beach, CA
March 25, 2003Greek Goddesses
Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, IL
April 10, 2003Herstory of the Goddess Workshop
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
April 12-13, 2003 & June 7-8, 2003Italian Black Madonna Goddess Banners
With Mary Beth Moser & Lucia Birnbaum
New College, San Francisco, CAGoddess Alive!
Oakland, CA
April 14-15, 2003Twin Goddess Banners
Serpentina Book Award honoring Vicki Noble
Oakland, CA
April 22, 2003Goddess Banners at Women’s Spirituality Conference
Sponsored by New College
San Francisco, CA
May 2-4, 2003The Black Madonnas of Italy
With Mary Beth Moser
Dante Alighieri Society, Seattle, WA
May 14, 2003Goddess Banners at Goddess GATE of Eastern Europe
Czech Republic, Austria, Poland
May 16-30, 2003Greek & Chinese Goddesses at Annual Greek Festival
Germantown Friends School, Germantown, PA
June 8, 2003Goddess Banners: The Art of the Feminine Divine
Dairy Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO
June 20-July 25, 2003Mexican Goddess Banners at Latina Fiesta
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
June 21, 2003Unitarian Universalist 8th Annual Women’s Spirituality Conference
With Marija Gimbutas film Signs Out of Time Premiere
Andover, MA
June 21, 2003Goddess Banners at The Goddess Conference
Glastonbury, England
July 31-August 4, 2003Goddess Banners at World Congress on Matriarchal Studies
Luxembourg
September 5-7, 2003Goddess Banners at Weaving the Vision 25th Anniversary Conference
Marin County Services for Women, San Rafael, CA
September 25-26, 2003Goddesses Banners in China
Beijing & Kuanyin’s Shrine, Pu’to’shan
October 4-26, 2003Goddess Banners & Herstory of the Goddess Workshop
Rivendell Retreat Center, Hotchkiss, CO
November 2, 2003Goddess Banners at Woman & Earth Conference
St. Petersburg, Russia
December 12-14, 2003 -
Goddess Spirit Banners & Workshop
Goddesses in Hawaii
Maui, Kauai
January 7-21, 2002Goddess Icons: Creating Sacred Images
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
March 1-3, 2002Goddesses & Rock Art
The Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
March 8-10, 2002Goddesses & Rock Art
Society of Layerists in Multi Media
Sedona, AZ
April 4-7, 2002The Goddesses in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji
April 19-May 16, 2002Goddess Icons in Italia
La Romita Art School, Terni Italy
June 13-28, 2002Goddesses & Creativity
The Women's Ecumenical Committee Day of Solidarity
Central Christian Church, Denver, CO
August 17, 2002Goddess Icons
Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
September 18-28, 2002Goddess Banners at the International Women's Forum Global Conference
Mexico City
October 16-19, 2002 -
Icon Spirit Banners of the Divine Feminine
Goddesses in Hawaii
Kauai Museum
January 18-March 10, 2001Goddesses in the Labyrinth
First Congregational United Church of Christ, Greeley, CO
February 25, 2001Goddesses in Wyoming
Mexican Immigrants of the American West
Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, WY
March 31, 2001Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
March 12-28, 2001Goddesses in Idaho at the 4th Biennial Mexican American Conference
Boise State University, Boise, ID
March 13-14, 2001Sacred Icon Workshop
The Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
March 17-18, 2001Goddess Banners: Sacred Pathways Pilgrimage
Chartres, France
April 27-28, 2001Goddess Banners at Beltane Fire Eye Festival
Uiseach, Ireland
April 28, 2001Goddess Banners at Goddess GATE Eastern Europe
Czech Republic, Poland, Austria
May 12-23, 2001SLMM 2001 Summer Exhibition
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
June 1-August 3, 2001Goddess Banners & Presentation
32nd International Convention
American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
Denver, CO
June 5-10, 2001Goddess Banners at The Magdalene Project Second Annual Celebration
Marietta, GA
July 21, 2001Goddess Banners & Workshop at The Goddess Conference
Glastonbury, England
July 24-28, 2001Artists for Open Space Exhibition
Montana Land Reliance
Whitefish, MT
August 17, 2001Unsere Leute Memorial Commemorating August 28, 1941 Exodus
American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
Portland, OR
August 25, 2001Goddess Banners at The Goddess Gathering in Peru
Machu Picchu, Cusco, Marcahuasi Plateau, Nasca, Ica
September 22-October 6, 2001Goddesses in Creative Space
Linhart / Finlon, Denver, CO
October 23-November 15, 2001The Sacred Web: Weaving Women's Stories
Albuquerque, NM
October 27-30, 2001Goddesses at Women in Boulder Event
Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, CO
November 18, 2001 -
ReTurning to the Mother of us ALL
California Institute of Integral Studies Fundraiser for Marija Gimbutas
Scottish Rite Temple, Oakland, CA
Feburary 6, 2000Malta Exchange Exhibitions
California Institute of Integral Studies Pacific School of Religion, San Francisco, CA
February 7-26. 2000Goddesses of Central Mexico
Global Awareness Through Experience
Lutheran Center, Mexico City
February 28-March 12, 2000Goddesses at Limina
Oak Park Women's Club, Chicago, IL
March 12, 2000Women's Experience: The Sacred in Women's Lives
9th Annual Women's Conference
Loyola University, Chicago, IL
March 24-26, 2000Goddesses in Wyoming
Women's Fair
Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, WY
March 31, 2000Divina Et Femina III
University of Ottawa, Canada
May 18-21, 2000The Sacred Within & Without
Franciscan Spirituality Center, La Crosse, WI
June 23-24, 2000Birth of Wisdom
SLMM Group Exhibition
St. John's College, Sante Fe, NM
June 22-26, 2000Goddess Banners at The Goddess Conference
Glastonbury, England
August 2-6, 2000Santa Reparata Graphic Arts Centre
Florence, Italy
August 21, 2000Les Images Sacres du Feminin travers La Vierge Noire
Gordes, France
August 24-September 15, 2000Bridging Time & Space
Tointon Gallery, Union Colony Civic Center, Greeley, CO
August 24-September 15, 2000Labyrinth & the Goddess Spirit Banners
First Congregational United Church of Christ, Greeley, CO
September 25-December 31, 2000Sacred Pathways & Goddess Mysteries
Greece
October 11-25, 2000Goddesses in the Himalayas
Dwarika's, Kathmandu, Nepal – October 8-14, 2000
Patan Museum, Nepal – October 14-21, 2000
Lhasa, Gyantse, Tibet – October 14-21, 2000
Thimphu, Bhutan – October 22-28, 2000The Virgin Conference / Guadalupe's Birthday
San Juan Battista, CA
December 8-10, 2000 -
Goddesses of Central Mexico
Global Awareness Through Experience
Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration Lutheran Center, Mexico City
February 2-12, 1999Il' Mara II
St. Julians, Malta
March 30-April 10, 1999Goddesses of Mexico & Peru in the Desert
Palm Springs, CA
April 8, 1999Pachamana & the Goddesses of the World
The Goddess Gathering, Machu Picchu, Peru
April 29, 1999Goddesses of Mexico
Pacific School of Religion, Oakland, CA
May 1-5, 1999Ancient Mothers / The Creative Impulse
Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
May 9, 1999The Goddesses in Sante Fe
Sante Fe, NM
June 21-28, 1999Goddess Banners at The Goddess Conference
Glastonbury, England
August 4-8, 1999Bridging Time & Space
Society of Layerists in Multi-Media
Dominican College San Rafael, CA
August 24-September 28, 1999Goddess Icons
La Romita Art Center, Terni, Italy
September 24-October 4, 1999Millenia of Mediterranean Goddesses Conference
Rethymnon, Crete
October 24-28, 1999Women's Conference
Mankato, MN
October 20-22, 1999Women's Day at Oakton Community College
Des Plaines, IL
November 10, 1999The Divine Feminine Goddess Millenium Conference
Puerto Morelos, Mexico
December 7-15, 1999 -
The Goddess in the Midwest
Des Moines, IA
February 27-28, 1998The Goddess in the Desert
Palm Springs, CA
April 1-3, 1998Language of the Goddess & Crop Circles
Loveland, CO
April 18, 1998Re-Imagining Revival: The Divine Feminine
Minneapolis, MN
April 16-19, 1998National United Methodist Churches Conference
Orlando, FL
May 16-18, 1998The Language of the Goddess Conference
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
June 12-14, 1998Anacultur's Woman and Earth Goddess Conference
Istanbul & Konya, Turkey
June 25-28, 19989000 Years of the Goddess in Anatolia
Ayse and Ercumend Kalmik Museum, Istanbul
June 22-28, 1998Deepening the Disciplines: International Conference on Archaeomythology
Madouri, Greece
July 13-18, 1998Goddesses of Malta
Quan Yin Gallery, Oakland, CA
August 15-27, 1998Die Gottin aus Deutschland
FrauenMuseum, Wiesbaden
September 1-October 15, 1998The Goddess Down Under
Invoking the Goddess Spring Creation Gathering
Sydney, Australia
October 1-15, 1998Celtic Connections
Society of Layerists in Multi-Media
Bradford College, Haverhill, MA
October 4-November 5, 1998Circles of Light / Techno Cosmic Mass with Matthew Fox
Glenn Miller Ballroom, University of Colorado
October 25, 1998The Greenest Branch: Conference for 900th Birthday of Hildegard of Bingen
Burlington, VT
November 5-8, 1998Woman and Earth International Conference
Helsinki, Finland
December 10-12, 1998Guadalupe and Ixchel
Puerto Moreles, Mexico
December 8-14, 1998 -
Akua / Ancestors Spirit Banners
Kalani-Honua, Hawai'i
January 12-19, 1997Goddess Banners & Lecture
25th National Women’s Caucus for Art, Philadelphia, PA
February 8-13, 19979,000 Years of the Goddess in Anatolia
Tointon Gallery, Greeley, CO
February 28-March 30, 1997Herrinn Great Mother Love
Kucukkoy, Catalhuyuk, Turkey
June 17, 1997Crop Circles: Language of Sacred
Assembly Rooms, Glastonbury, England
August 1-7, 1997The Goddesses at Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, NM
October 1-5, 1997Sophia Wisdom Goddess Icon Banners
Woman and Earth Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia
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