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Ritsuko Taho Named Green CD Professor

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Taho Named Green Professor

Ritsuko Taho, a sculptor of growing national renown and an assistant 
professor of visual arts in the Department of Architecture, has been 
selected to be the next Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor 
for a two-year term.

Professor Taho's appointment is the first to a career-development 
teaching chair in the visual arts at MIT. She has been a member of the 
faculty since 1990.

The appointment was announced by Provost Mark S. Wrighton. Professor 
Taho's work as a sculptor is ranked at the highest level. She received 
the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 1989. The award is given 
to artists "whose work shows talent, promise and individual strength."

The Boston Institute of Contemporary Art has chosen Professor Taho as 
one of 10 artists whose work will be shown in its annual "Boston Now" 
exhibit May 22-July 21.

She has a current sculpture installation (through October) at the 
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.

Professor Taho teaches sculpture and the fundamentals of visual arts to 
both beginning and advanced students at MIT.

She holds the BA in dietetics (1973) from Tokushina University; the BFA 
in industrial and craft design (1977) and the MFA in craft design 
(1979), both from Musashino Art University, Tokyo; and the MFA (1985) in 
sculpture from Yale University.

She has been visiting artist and lecturer at the Provincetown Fine Arts 
Work Center, the Rhode Island School of Design, Musashino Art 
University, Massachusetts College of Art and Mount Holyoke College.