Toshiko Takaezu (b.1922)

Toshiko Takaezu has taught at numerous schools including The Cleveland Institute of Art, Penland School of Crafts and Princeton University . She has received numerous awards and honors, including honorary degrees. She was a 1975 fellow of the American Craft Council and received a 1994 American Craft Council gold medal award for artistic excellence. She has had more than 20 solo exhibitions and her work is represented in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of fine Arts , Boston , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, and more than 15 other museums and art centers in this country and abroad. She lives in Quakerstown , New Jersey.