Judith Roode (1942-2018) was a significant participant in the art scene in Minnesota and beyond in the last quarter of the 20th century, a crucial member of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM), and a forceful and greatly admired professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She was an eloquent proponent of drawing as a means of revealing complex and nuanced human experience. Her images of powerful, vulnerable female figures and the charged double figures of the Approach-Avoidance series represent the core of her feminist artistic expression.