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Mitzi Lai, a long time teacher and popular workshop instructor, has won many awards and her paintings are in corporate as well as private collections throughout the area and several countries. Her passion in art leads her to many different mediums, including Chinese painting, oil, watercolor and digital fine arts. Mitzi has a Master of Arts degree from Stephen F. Austin State Univ. Texas. Mitzi had many solo exhibitions around the area as well as in Texas, Invitational Exhibition include New England Fine Arts Institute's National Exhibition in Boston; City Hall of Alhambra, Calif. and many other regional exhibitions, recently include the international juried the Oil Painters of America Salon Exhibition 2013; Salon International 2010 at Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas; 2010 at Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio; 2009 at The Schumacher Gallery and High Road Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; Artists Archives of Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio; National Small Oil Painting 2008, 2012, at Kansas City and Best of Photography Annual by Photographer's Forum Magazine 2008. Mitzi is an Artist-in-Residence for the Ohio Arts Council's Arts Learning and member of Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society, Ohio Plein Air Society. She teaches classes and workshops at Cleveland Museum of Art as well as at her studio. Mitzi is a signature member of Pastel Society of The West Coast, Degas Pastel Society as well as Akron Society of Artist. Besides painting, giving workshop, lecturing, she is also a professional designer for dinner wares, fabric and other home furnishing products as well as greeting cards, paper products ....etc. Mitzi paints whatever inspires her, from still life, floral, landscape, portrait, figures to animal. Selected Public Collections: PNC Bank Kent State University"¨ City of Brecksville, Ohio The Immigration Law Offices of Margaret Wong Cleveland RTA Bus Shelter Art Publication: Strokes of Genius 4 by North Light Books (2012)