Mignonette Yin Cheng

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Mignonette Yin Cheng has been honoured with considerable regional national and international awards and exhibitions. Her work is represented in numerous private and public collections such as Springfield Art Museum Springfield Missouri; Ford Motor Company Dearborn Michigan; and Proctor & Gamble Cincinnati Ohio. Born in Amoy China in 1933 Mignonette received her initial training at the Russian Art Academy in Shanghai and Chao Shao-An Studio in Hong Kong. In 1958 Mignonette received a full scholarship to attend Ohio University in Athens Ohio and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree cum laude. One year later she completed her thesis and a solo exhibition Chinese Painting and Western Emblems: A Comparative Study and received a Master of Fine Art degree. She was a professor emerita of painting at the University of Michigan School of Art & Design having taught there for more than 30 years. "In her irrepressible joy of painting and teaching Mignonette Yin Cheng combined both Western and Eastern disciplines to form a singular vision " writes Rene M. Yin Cheng in her insightful and detailed essay. In addition to gaining mastery with watercolors Cheng also produced striking oil gouache and wax-emulsion collage pieces. She passed away in Ann Arbor Michigan in 2009.