Mitzi Lai

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 Plei...

Master Degree of Art, Stephen F. Austin State Univ., Texas.
Has taken intense workshop with oil masters, David Leffel, Jove Wang, Kim English, Jeffrey Watts. Also many pastel masters.

2023: One Woman Exhibition, The Gathering Place, Westlake,Oh
2022 : Public Art of Bus Shelter for Cleveland, Ohio
2022: Great Lake Pastel National Exhibition
2022 : Pastel USA International Pastel Exhibition
2022: Pastel d"Opale biennial International, France
2021 : Mark Arts National Watercolor Exhibition
2021 Peninsula Art Academy Plein Air Exhib
2021: Degas Pastel Society member Exhib
2021: 47th Alaska W/C Society Annual Juried Exhib
2021 35th Annual Pastel USA International Exhib
2021 Atmospheric-Impressions
2021 New Mexico W/C Society ABQ National Exhib
2021 Bayart Anjual Juried Exhib
2020 Mansfield Center for the Arts, Mansfield, Ohio. juried OHIO Plein Air Society
Pastel USA 2020 juried Exhibition
Catharine Lorillard Wold Art Club 2020 juried Exhibition
Pastel Society of Taiwan 2020 Spring Exhibiton
Oil Painters of America 2020 Wet paint competition
2019. Degas Pastel Society, New Orlean, La., menber juried exhibition.
2018
International juried 3rd China (Suzhou) Biannual International Pastel Exhibition, China
Degas Pastel Biannual Exhibition, New Orleans, LA
Hudson Fine Art Gallery, Hudson, Ohio. Plein Air Exhibition
2017
BayArt Center, Cleveland, Ohio Ohio Plein Air Society Juried competition
Springfield Museum of Art, ...