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lita batho bio
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Lita Batho began working in clay in the mid 1980's and subsequently attended the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1992 with Honors in Sculpture. In 1994 she studied technical welding at the Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis later moved to Seattle. Since then she has been an artist-in-residence and teacher at the Pratt Fine Arts Center, a public artist with a commission from the City of Seattle, and has maintained her own steel working studio in cooperation with four other artists. In 1996 Lita apprenticed in fine woodworking at Steve Balter Fine Furniture in Seattle.
Lita's work experience includes serving as project artist in the design, fabrication, and installation of a street-end park and urban rest stop (Seattle Arts Commission - SODO Urban Arts Corridor), instructor in welding and metalworking for high school students and sculptural wireworking and mixed media book arts for adults (Pratt Fine Arts Center), and instructor and project artist for a community-based public art piece (Lambert House, Seattle).
Her exhibitions include a one person show at the King County Gallery in Seattle (1998), participation in the PONCHO Fine Art Invitational curated by Margory Aronson in Seattle in 1997, and a Seattle Public Library books-art exhibition at the downtown Seattle Public Library in 1996.
Lita is "interested in aesthetic concerns, involving line and surface, as well as more conceptual subject matter, through which she chooses things to represent in her work".
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