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Keith Anden Achepohl

Contemporary painter, printmaker
United States
b. 1934 - 2018

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Keith Anden Achepohl was born in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. Achepohl received his BA from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, before going on to receive his MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa in 1960. In 1989, he attended Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, where he received his DFA.

Achepohl held a handful of teaching positions throughout his career, beginning in 1964 when he taught printmaking at the University of Iowa for three years. From 1969 until 1972, he served as an associate professor at Pacific Lutheran University, but then returned to the University of Iowa in 1972 as an associate professor before being elevated to full professorship in 1978. In 1996, he took over the University’s Summer in Venice Program, and was named the Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts in 2001. Over the course of his career, he received a number of awards. Achepohl died in Eugene, Oregon, in 2018.

Madison Duran ‘20
April 2019

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