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Few moments in my life have left me so exalted that I float out of my grinning body, watch myself from the outside, and try high-fiving my corporeal self. Meeting Chiyo Ishikawa was one of those experiences.

Profile: Chiyo Ishikawa - Seattle Weekly

I stood in the Seattle Art Museum, a place I have been a hundred times. Except that day, the Deputy Director for Art was giving me a tour of her favorite works. Lucky doesn’t begin to explain it. I’d toured the space many times, in awe of the work but without context for much of it. And that day, one of the foremost experts and the Curator of European Painting and Sculpture was exuberantly answering my questions and kindly ignoring the fact that I was completely geeking out.

Because that’s Chiyo.

She defies the conceptions I've had about people in the art world.

Chiyo Ishikawa retires after 30 years as a Seattle Art Museum ...

She entirely lacks pretentiousness. She’s warm, she’s wholly enthusiastic. She is so open that, when I joined her in her home a few days later, she confidently owned early professional shortcomings, Profile: Chiyo Ishikawa - Seattle Weekly XEPE