Pat Lagger

For thirty years, Pat was a piano teacher, as well as a visual artist. Her artwork is inspired by her love of music and her devotion to her students and family.
Pat is a compulsive reader, usually at three in the morning! Her heroes are Leonardo Da Vinci and Paul Klee.
She is a member of FusedChicago, an encaustic artist group, and the Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists. She has exhibited her art in solo shows nationally and internationally and is a Ragdale Foundation and Vermont Studio alumna. Her work has appeared as cover art for a university magazine and on the set of a nationally syndicated television show. She was a parent mentor for the Chicago Youth Symphony and is occasionally called upon to judge exhibits in the Midwest.
Pat Lagger was born in SanDiego, and grew up in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Pat started her career as a high school English and humanities teacher. After her three children were born, she started over as an art student, at Northern Illinois University, College of DuPage, University of Illinois/Chicago,and Oxbow, the summer wing of Chicago's Art Institute Her favorite teachers are well-known artists: Phil Hanson, George Liebert, Michelle Grabner, Lennox Dunbar, Holly Greenberg and Paula Roland.

Selected Solo exhibitions:Allen and Peppa Architects, 121 W. Benton, Aurora, IlLines and Spaces, an exhibit of oil, ink and encaustic paintingsSeptember 2016Old Town School of Folk Music, Harris Gallery, 4544 N. LincolnAve, Chicago, Il Natural Graffiti, Paintings by Pat Lagger March 13-April 29, 2010University of Illinois Chicago, UIC Student Center West, 828 South Wolcott Messages, a Solo Show of Oil Paintings, November 3-December 5, 2008University of Illinois Health in the Arts Gallery 835 S. Wolcott Rm E-144 Prints and Mixed Media by Pat Lagger, October 7-November 30, 2005St. Charles Public Library, East Main and 5th Avenue, St. Charles, Il. Monoprints by Pat Lagger, October 1- 31, 2005DeKalb Gallery 161 N. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, Il. 60115 Recovered Manuscripts, monoprints, July 3-Aug 26, 2004Galerie Sculptures, 11 rue Visconti, Paris, France Etchings by Pat Lagger, March 15-April 14, 2001Yello Gallery, 1630 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Il 60622 Woman Spirit , Etchings and Monotypes by Pat Lagger, September-November 1997Selected Two- Person Exhibitions116/Gallery, 116 Main Street, St. Charles, Il, Fusion: Fiber, Lines and Spaces,Frank Connet, Shibori fiber art, Pa...