Meet your Instructor
Dr. Sandy Kita is a Senior Scholar at Chatham University. He is the author of five books on Japanese art, among which his Last Tosa:
Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, a Bridge to Ukiyo-e won simultaneous subventions from the Japan Foundation and the Milliard Meiss Fund of
the College Art Association. He is author of more than a dozen articles in such scholarly journals as Monumenta Nipponica, Monumenta
Serica, and Oriental Art, but has also published in The Carnegie Magazine, The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Metalsmith
Magazine. Dr. Kita is curator of over 50 exhibitions of Asian and Asian- American art, including shows at the Library of Congress,
The Walters Gallery of Art, and The Carnegie Museum of Art. Winner of the Lilly Fellowship for Distinguished Teaching, Professor Kita
has lectured at the Royal Academy in London, at the Foreign Training Institute of the Department of State, at the American Association
of Print Makers, and at the Japanese Institute for National Literature in Tokyo.
He was twice the Ellen Bayrd Weedon Lecturer at the University of Virginia. He has been a juror of the College Women’s Association Japanese Print Show in Tokyo and regularly offers courses at the Rare Book School.
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