Meet BettyJean

From Tattoo Chair to Art Studio

It started with ink. BettyJean spent years as a tattoo artist, learning how to translate a client's vision into something permanent on skin. That training — precision under pressure, color theory in real time, the intimacy of one-on-one creation — shaped everything she does now.

But skin is just one canvas. BettyJean started experimenting with resin, drawn to the way it captures light and color in three dimensions. What began as a side project became a full creative practice: live-edge tables with rivers of epoxy, handmade domino sets in swirling palettes, coasters that look like geode cross-sections.

"I don't separate my mediums. A resin pour teaches me about color flow the same way tattooing taught me about negative space. It all connects."

The "Ruby" in Art by Ruby & Co isn't a person — it's a color. That deep, jewel-tone red that runs through BettyJean's work like a signature. You'll find it in the resin rivers, the paint strokes, the custom dice. It's the thread that ties everything together.

Why "& Co"?

BettyJean works alone, but the "Co" represents everyone who's part of the creative process — the clients who bring ideas, the friends who test the dominos, the family who gathers around the tables. Art by Ruby & Co is a one-woman operation, but the art doesn't exist without the community that inspires it.

Every piece is made to order. No assembly line, no mass production, no middlemen. Just BettyJean in her Akron studio, pouring resin, mixing paint, and building things that are meant to be lived with — not just looked at.