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Sally Ruth Bourrie
Sally Ruth Bourrie has been a writer for more than thirty years. She is currently writer-editor at the Farm Credit Administration, where she wrote the script for Letters from the G...view moreSally Ruth Bourrie has been a writer for more than thirty years. She is currently writer-editor at the Farm Credit Administration, where she wrote the script for Letters from the Grapevine, a film about the agency's employees who served in World War II. Its thousands of views on YouTube have broken all previous agency records.She began her career at the J. Paul Getty Museum where she worked as a curatorial assistant in the Exhibitions and Paintings Departments, armed with her new master's degree in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California. She is proud to have written the first museum exhibition catalogue on the twentieth-century California wood engraver, Paul Landacre, for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She came to California from New York, where she had received her bachelor's degree as a double major in Political Science and Art History at Vassar College. As a full-time freelance writer in Chicago, Denver, and Portland, she contributed heavily to a book on the history of corporate giant Motorola, and pitched and sold more than 2,000 features, articles, white papers, advertorials, book, and web content on topics ranging from business and technology to the arts and gardening. Publications included newspapers such as The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, The Denver Post, and The Dallas Morning News. Her work also appeared in the Plain Dealer Magazine, Chicago magazine, Northwest Woman, NASDAQ, Colorado Business, and Alaska Airlines; trade publications such as Cable World and Wireless Week and digital media such as Newsweek.com and Barnes and Noble digital library. She also contributed more than 1,000 biographies and object articles to the J. Paul Getty Museum website. Sally served as senior editor for the permanent collections at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she oversaw the first new guidebook to the collection in more than twenty years, along with creating the first strategic plan for its award-winning digital catalogues, Online Editions, supporting the program in becoming fully sustainable within the institution. She oversaw the editing and production of one of the most complex catalogues ever produced at the Gallery and which was created both in print and online: Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.view less
Books by Sally Ruth Bourrie
Oregon Loves New York: A Story of American Unity After 9/11 2023 edition