Keith Achepol – printmaker, painter, and educator, was born April 11, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois.
He was awarded the Tiffany Foundation Award in 1966; the Fulbright Senior Lectureship Award in 1979, 1980, and 1984; the Gold Medal in Printmaking at the Mediterranean Biennale in Egypt in 1982; and the Edmondson Award from the Des Moines Art Center in 1990.
His work is included in museums around the world, including the Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; the Philadelphia Art Museum, Pennsylvania; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid; and the Kobe Art Museum, Kobe, Japan.
He died in Eugene, Oregon in 2018.