SAN LEANDRO, CA, May 06, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Pat Jow Kagemoto with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Ms. Kagemoto celebrates many years' experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
A native of New York City, Ms. Kagemoto studied drawing and design at Syracuse University School of Art and painting at Hunter College at the City University of New York. After studying printmaking under Professor Benjamin Wigfall, she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking, magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1975. Several years later, in 1984, Ms. Kagemoto had the opportunity to study under the tutelage of Robert Blackburn at the Printmaking Workshop in New York City.
Shortly after graduating from college, Ms. Kagemoto began teaching arts and crafts at the Neighborhood Service Organization in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1976. She was subsequently offered a position with Communications Village, Ltd. as a printmaking consultant from 1975 until 1984 and as an intaglio and color viscosity printmaking instructor between 1977 and 1979. Other positions to her credit included appointments as an exhibition auditor on behalf of the New York State Council on the Arts in New York City and as a gallery assistant at Watermark/Cargo Gallery in Kingston. Additionally, Ms. Kagemoto enjoyed the opportunity to serve as a visiting artist at the State University of New York at New Paltz and at the New York State Summer School of the Visual Arts, the State University of New York at Fredonia, and as the children's printmaking workshop director at the Woodstock Library.
Ms. Kagemoto's artwork has been featured in many solo, two-person and group exhibitions. These include the College Art Gallery at SUNY New Paltz, Communications Village, Ltd. and Watermark/Cargo Gallery in Kingston, New York, Cinque Gallery, Kenkeleba House and Catherine Street Gallery at Basement Workshop in New York City, Albany Institute of History and Art and Schenectady Museum in New York, and Finley Community Center in Santa Rosa, California. Likewise, her artwork has been displayed in such permanent collections as the Library of Congress, the California Museum of Photography, the Printmaking Workshop and Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Ms. Kagemoto has notably been commissioned to produce limited editions of several of her etchings as well.
As a talented and well-known artist, Ms. Kagemoto has spent her life devoted to conveying her impressions of nature through the lens of her camera, the strokes of her paintbrushes and her various printmaking tools. Her photographs include an assortment of waterscapes, flowers and foliage that she has come across throughout nature, while her paintings incorporate colorful, abstract pieces in both acrylic and watercolor. Meanwhile, Ms. Kagemoto's intricate abstract intaglio prints are created from zinc etching plates which may be rectangular or shaped by cutting. Some of her rich, bold and textural etchings utilize color viscosity printing which combines the processes of both intaglio and relief methods.
Ms. Kagemoto is a member of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Well regarded throughout her career, she received grants from such organizations as the New York State Council on the Arts and the America The Beautiful Fund. Ms. Kagemoto also received an Alexander Medal and a Haney Medal from the School Art League, New York City Department of Education, a Merit Award in Graphics from the New Rochelle Art Association, a Special Award in Graphics from Gallery North in New York and First and Second Place Awards in Graphics from the Catskill Art Society. She has been included in Who's Who in the West, 25th and 26th editions, Who's Who in American Art, 28th edition, and Who's Who of American Women, 20th, 25th, 27th and 28th editions.
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