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Han-Sang-soo Cranes embroidery

A Robe of Many Colors: The Embroidery of Han, Sang-soo

March 25, 2018Joan SuwalskyContemporary Korean lifestyles, Korean fiber arts, Traditional Korean lifestylesNo Comments

In December I had the great pleasure of visiting the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (http://www.asianart.org) for a special exhibit of Korean clothing. Couture Korea (http://www.asianart.org/exhibitions/couture-korea) was curated by Han, Hyonjeong Kim, Associate Curator of Korean Art at the Museum in collaboration with the Arumjigi Culture Keepers Foundation in Korea (http://www.arumjigi.org/eng/introduce/intro.php). Running from November…

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Youngmin Lee with community bojagi at LACMA Boone Children's Gallery

A World Record!

March 7, 2018Joan SuwalskyContemporary Korean art & crafts, Korean handicraftsNo Comments

In early 2017, we wrote about a friend of ours, Youngmin Lee, who designs and creates stunning hand-sewn Korean textile art in her home in the San Francisco area (http://100thimbles.com/youngmin-lee-bojagi-artist/).   In that article we mentioned a project that she was pursuing with visitors to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where she was…

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Bojagi artist, Youngmin Lee

Youngmin Lee, Bojagi Artist

March 14, 2017Joan SuwalskyKorean handicraftsNo Comments

  During a recent visit to San Francisco, my daughter and I had the great pleasure of visiting the studio of Youngmin Lee (www.youngminlee.com), a skilled bojagi artist born and raised in Korea and now living in the U.S.  Serene and soft-spoken, Youngmin spends up to four hours most days carefully stitching wrapping cloths, pouches,…

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Debbi Kent & Joan Suwalsky at The Korea Society

We Take Our Show on the Road

December 8, 2014Joan Suwalsky100 Thimbles in a Box2 comments

On a rainy day this week, Debbi and I drove to New York City to speak about 100 Thimbles in a Box at an evening book talk and craft show sponsored by the Korea Society. We were honored by the invitation and had a marvelous time! The evening was billed as a celebration of the…

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We’re very excited to introduce our next book! What we learned about Korea’s symbolic animals while researching 100 Thimbles in a Box inspired us to feature them in a series of children’s stories we are calling the Ginkgo Tree Tales. Illustrated by the gifted Korean artist, Lee, Woong Ki, these are not retellings of traditional folktales,…

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Han-Sang-soo Cranes embroidery

A Robe of Many Colors: The Embroidery of Han, Sang-soo

March 25, 2018Joan Suwalsky

In December I had the great pleasure of visiting the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (http://www.asianart.org) for a special exhibit of Korean clothing. Couture Korea (http://www.asianart.org/exhibitions/couture-korea) was curated by Han, Hyonjeong Kim, Associate Curator of Korean Art at the Museum in collaboration with the Arumjigi Culture Keepers Foundation in Korea (http://www.arumjigi.org/eng/introduce/intro.php). Running from November…

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