His children's book with writer Ken Cole, "No Bad News," won numerous awards. The photographs for the book were shot mainly in Riverwest. Ruebartsch's color photographs of the Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico will be the subject of a show this fall at the Walker's Point Center for the Arts. He was a producer of "Voices of the Sierra Tarahumara," a documentary that premiered in 2001 at the Sundance Film Festival.