Ronda Richley’s journey as an artist was seeded early in her childhood in Centerville, Ohio, where the colors of her mother’s art supplies mingled with small-town quietude. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Ronda grew up in a household balanced between her mother’s creative passion—never fully pursued—and her father’s practical skill with numbers. The urge to create arrived soon and stayed: recess was less for play than for portrait commissions, classmates trading quarters for pencil-drawn likenesses.

 The trajectory from gifted child artist to accomplished professional began formally at the University of Cincinnati, where she earned her BFA, before moving on to graduate studies in graphic design and illustration at Miami University in Oxford. Her artistic journey expanded across the country, carrying her to California at age thirty, where she took a Master’s in Studio Arts from Cal State University Northridge. This academic foundation bloomed into a lifelong practice fed by countless workshops and an insatiable curiosity. https://www.rondarichley.com/