Tarah Trueblood pursues a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting at Miami’s College of Creative Arts and directs Miami’s Center for American and World Cultures. Barker Purchase Award” at Richmond Art Museum’s “124th Annual Exhibition by Indiana and Ohio Artists.” Trueblood has two paintings on exhibit through October of 2023 at McCullough-Hyde Hospital’s “2022 Healing Arts Exhibit” and one on exhibit th
rough November of 2023 in the lobby of the City of Oxford’s Municipal Building. She was the featured artist for “January” at the Oxford Community Arts Center’s “2023 Calendar Exhibit,” two paintings of which are featured in the Oxford Visual Arts Connection’s “2023 Visual Arts Calendar.”
Trueblood has earned a Juris Doctor, Master’s of Arts, Master’s of Divinity, and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. She began her career as a corporate finance attorney in California and was a trained docent for Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum. After nine years, Trueblood left the practice to pursue a theological education in Berkeley. She was ordained a United Methodist minister and served several Bay Area congregations before leaving the ministry to pursue a career in higher education. She currently identifies as a Mystic and is involved in interfaith work in Oxford, Ohio. Trueblood enjoys deep conversation with friends, hiking with her Little Sister in the Big Brother Big Sister Program, hanging out at home with her cat, Sir Charles, and spending lots of time painting in her art studio and talking with people about theology and art. Recent paintings are part of Trueblood’s "Becoming" collection which envisions energy as consciousness. These paintings show the push and pull of background and foreground like individual consciousness ebbing and flowing playfully with, what Trueblood refers to as, "The Great Consciousness." She enjoys creating at the intersection of art and spirituality.
