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Betty LaDuke

Betty LaDuke (1933-) is a painter, muralist, printmaker and writer. Born in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents Sam and Helen Bernstein, LaDuke knew she would be an artist by the time she was nine.

At age sixteen, she enrolled in the High School of Music and Art in New York, and continued her education at Denver University, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and the Instituto Allende in Mexico. In 1963, she graduated from California State University in Los Angeles with master’s degree in printmaking.

LaDuke taught at Southern Oregon University from 1964 to 1996, the university’s second woman art teacher and, for eighteen years, the only woman in the Art Department.

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In an effort to raise the profile of women and international artists, she initiated “Women and Art” and “Art in the Third World” courses at the university. Her exhibitions highlighted these themes, including one at Willamette in 1977, Landscape: A Feminine Mythical View.

LaDuke also published a series of