Ron Fleming is a native of Oklahoma. He was a professional illustrator and designer and has now turned his full attentions toward wood sculpture and sculpting on the turned vessel form. He is represented in Santa Fe, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

He is active in the American Association of Woodturners and the Wood Turning Center where he is currently serving on the board of trustees.

Ron has received many awards for his work, including a 1989 purchase award from the Vision Makers Show which was sponsored by the States Arts Council of Oklahoma, a purchase award from the 1992 Regional Craft Biennial, sponsored by the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, and the Grand Prize Award in the 1991 American Craft Awards, sponsored by Kraus Sikes, Inc.

In 1993 Michael Monroe, the curator of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, asked Ron to donate a piece to the White House permanent craft collection as part of it's observance of the Year of the American Craft.

• 1989
  • "Pueblo Jar", Kirkpatric Center, Oklahoma City, OK
• 1992
  • "Buckeye Weed", Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
• 1993
  • "New Beginnings", The White House, Washington, D.C.
• 1997
  • "Dreamer", The American Mission of the United States, State Department, Gniva, Switzerland
  • "Floral Blossom", The Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
• 1998
  • "Firebird", Mint Museum of Craft+Design, Charlotte, NC Donated by Jane and Arthur Mason, Washington, D.C.
  • "Madrone Flora", Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Donated by Dr. Irving Lipton, Encino, CA
  • "Ceremonial Bowl", Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK - Purchase
• 1999
  • "Alhambra", Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA - Donated by Dorothy and George Saxe
  • "Temple Jar", Fine Arts Museum of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI - Donated by Dr. Irving Lipton, Encino, CA
• 2000
  • "Ling Chi", Detroit Institute of Art - Donated by Mr. Robert Bohlen
  • " Pegasus", Detroit Institute of Art - Donated by Mr. Robert Bohlen
• 2001
  • "Metamorphosis", American Craft Museum, N. Y. New York - Donated by Dr. Irving Lipton
  • "Kingwood Flora", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA - Donated by Dr. Irving Lipton
  • "Weed", Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI - Donated by Dr. Irving Lipton

• Design Book Five, by Fine Woodworking Magazine, 1990
• Lathe-Turned Objects, An International Exhibition, by the Wood Turning Center, 1988
• American Woodturner, The Journal of the American Association of Woodturners, June 1990
• Turning - The Woodturning Supplement to Woodworker Britan, 1990
• OK Magazine - The Tulsa World Sunday Magazine, 1991
• International Lathe-Turned Objects, Challenge IV by the Wood Turning Center, 1991
• Cross Currents, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, 1991
• Woodwork Magazine, 1991
• Denton Record - Chronicle, 1991
• Southwest Art, 1992
• Design Book Six, by Fine Woodworking Magazine, 1992
• Fine Woodworking Magazine, 1993
• Tulsa People, 1994
• Oklahoma Today, 1994
• Challenge V: International Lathe-Turned Objects, by the Wood Turning Center, 1993
• The White House Collection of American Crafts, published by Harry N. Abrams, 1995
• House Beautiful, May 1995
• Smithsonian, June 1995
• Sky, Delta Airlines, August 1995
• Design Book Seven, by Fine Woodworking, 1996
• Art of the Lathe, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York, 1966
• Expressions in Wood, Masterworks from the Wornick Collection 1997
• WoodTurning, Sept., 1998
• Contemporary Turned Wood: New Designs in a Rich Tradition, 1999
• The Art of Craft, Contemporary works from the Saxe collection, 1999
• Living with Form, The Horn Collection of Contemporary Crafts, 2000
• Turning wood into Art, The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection, 2000
• The Fine Art of Wood, The Bohlen Collection, 2000
• Woodturning, August, 2001
• American Woodturner, AAW, Fall 2001
• Turning form Nature, AAW, 2001
• Challenge VIRoots, by the Woodturning Center, 2001
• Wood Turning in North America since 1930, The Woodturning Center and Yale University Art Gallery, 2001