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Featured Artist: Etsuko Ichikawa

Pyrograph Deai 6306 by Etsuko Ichikawa


Glass Pyrograph on paper, 2006.

10” x 12.5”

Made by Seattle-based artist Etsuko Ichikawa

Etsuko Ichikawa is a Tokyo-born, Seattle-based, multi-media artist. Ichikawa graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in Japan in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. In 1993 she worked with Dale Chihuly as a studio assistant for eight years and became independent in 2003.  Ichikawa’s work has been exhibited internationally and is represented by Winston Wächter Fine Art in Seattle and New York In 2020, she was awarded the prestigious Artist Trust Innovator Award for her work with uranium glass.