RXV Rings contact info: Email, rubenxv@gmail.com or phone 818-800-0472 Who is Ruben Viramontes? Please contact Ruben by Email rubenxv@gmail.com or phone 818-800-0472. Ruben Viramontes was born in the silver mining village of Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico. Dad was a mining engineer with degree from the University of Guanajuato, Mom was a great artist/ painter. Dad shared many rock and mineral specimens with Ruben. As a child Ruben made small animals out of unusual exotic native seed pods, Ruben would catch scorpions and birds and study them closely. Childhood was a great time to explore woodcarving from branches. Both his childhood and adult years have been divided between living in Los Angeles and Mexico. After studying architecture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Ruben worked for the Mexican Institute of Anthropology in church and monument restoration, and archeological digs, which gave him an opportunity to travel throughout the entire country and experience local artistry first-hand. Later Ruben studied jewelry making with master Mexican craftsmen near Taxco. Subsequently for many years, Ruben designed and manufactured jewelry for all the major stores in Mexico, sales were near 10,000 pieces of jewelry per month, Ruben taught a village to make the jewelry and he invented machines for the manufacturing. Ruben was published many times in Mexico Vogue Magazine. After Ruben's children were born, he decided to return to Los Angeles. He became a Walt Disney Imagineer and spent the next 17 years designing theme parks, and themed interiors for Disney, as well as Universal Studios and Warner Brothers. There is a animated show in Medellin. Columbia designed by Ruben "The show of the Orchids" showing daily at the orchids batonical garden. The Disney Company commissioned Ruben to make hundreds of paintings and sculptures that are featured in the parks in Los Angeles, Orlando, Paris, and  Tokyo. Over 2,000 of Ruben's animal designs are integrated into the Disney Animal Kingdom Park in Florida. Likewise Ruben's fellow Imagineers frequently commissioned him to design and fabricate jewelry for their personal use (SAMPLE CUSTOM JEWELRY, 50 works of art, a tab at the top of the front page). Ruben has also designed products for Disney and was a featured artist in the Disney Galleries in Los Angeles and Orlando and the MGM Gallery in Las Vegas. Ruben is published in two Disney Books---"Walt Disney Imagineering" and "The Making of Animal Kingdom". A friend once said, " Ruben is scary, he can design and make anything"