Michiko Itatani
Hatheway Cultural Center Gallery
Aug. 22 – Sept. 22, 2017
As Fall classes began, Lewis and Clark Community College hosted an art exhibition featuring artist Michiko Itatani. The show’s opening coincides with the culmination of the Monticello Sculpture Gardens’ cosmic-themed 2017 Summer Garden Show, Solar Flair.
Itatani is a Chicago-based artist who was born in Osaka, Japan. After she received her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1976, she returned to her alma mater to teach in the Painting and Drawing department. She has received the Illinois Arts Council Artist’s Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is collected in the Museum of Contemporary Art, U.S.; Olympic Museum, Switzerland; Villa Haiss Museum, Germany; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada; Museu D’art Contemporani, Spain; and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea.
An opening reception was held Aug. 21. The exhibit was open to the public 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday between Aug. 22 and Sept. 22, 2017