Gladys Thompson Roth's academic training was in Early Childhood Education and in Special Education. But she also found time to study stone and wood sculpture with Aline Geist, Elsie Nydorf, Raymond Rocklin, and Lissy Dennett.Roth's work is inspired by human forms and relationships. Direct carving in stone and wood convey the vitality of her subjects for which she has had major exhibits including those at the Chung-Cheng Gallery , Art 54 Gallery, and the Shelter Rock Art Gallery.
For the last thirty years, she has been involved in the Women’s Movement as a Director of Womanspace and feels it has profoundly informed her work, focusing her on the beauty and strength of womankind. Most certainly, her work is beautiful as her exhibit at the QCC Art Gallery in early 2011, A Journey in Stone and Wood, lent ample testimony.
