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Ruby c. Williams has been making art in Bealsville, Florida since 1993. Her art making began with the creation of signs that advertised the fruits and vegetables she sells at her fruit stand on SR 60 about 20 miles east of Tampa, Florida. The first public showing of her work was in 1994 at the restored Railroad Depot building in Plant City, Florida. It was curated by the photographer Bud Lee. In 1997, the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida presented a show "Casting Her Bread Upon the Waters: The folk Art Images of Ruby C. Williams, curated by Jane Backstrom. The museum provided a publication written by the curator that gave a historical perspective of the artist in the community where she lives and within the contemporary Black folk art visual culture.