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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>Claudia Fitch has won the Artist Trust's 2014 award for lifetime achievement by a Washington state woman artist. By giving Fitch its Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Artist Trust  recognized and honored her innovations in visual arts. (The award includes a $10,000</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>Claudia Fitch has won the Artist Trust's 2014 award for lifetime achievement by a Washington state woman artist. By giving Fitch its Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, <a href="http://artisttrust.org/index.php/news/press-release/claudia_fitch_receives_2014_twining_humber_award_for_lifetime_artistic_achi?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Artist Trust</a>  recognized and honored her innovations in visual arts. (The award includes a $10,000 award). Visitors to CenturyLink Field — home of the Seahawks and Sounders — will be familiar with one of her better-known public-art projects, <a href="http://Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement!">Colossal Heads</a>. Fitch's work can also be seen at the <a href="http://www.claudiafitch.com/Shift.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Lynnwood Transit Center</a> and along the <a href="http://www.claudiafitch.com/Shift.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Interurban Bike Trail in Tukwila</a>. And, of course, on her <a href="http://www.claudiafitch.com/index.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">website</a>. — J.C.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="http://crosscut.com/media/story_image/Screen_Shot_2014-05-09_at_1.00.02_PM.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy"></figure>
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Claudia Fitch has won the Artist Trust's 2014 award for lifetime achievement by a Washington state woman artist. By giving Fitch its Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Artist Trust recognized and honored her innovations in visual arts. (The award includes a $10,000 award). Visitors to CenturyLink Field — home of the Seahawks and Sounders — will be familiar with one of her better-known public-art projects, Colossal Heads. Fitch's work can also be seen at the Lynnwood Transit Center and along the Interurban Bike Trail in Tukwila. And, of course, on her website. — J.C.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi