A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
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JeeYeun Lee

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EDUCATION: BA 1992 Stanford University; MA 1995 University of California at Berkeley; MFA 2018 Cranbrook Academy of Art. EXHIBITIONS: 6018North; Hyde Park Art Center; ARC Gallery; Terrain Exhibitions; Santa Fe Art Institute; Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH. PUBLICATIONS: Walking (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art); Decolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism; Ways of Walking; About Place Journal. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Chicago Tribune; City Cast Chicago; Newcity; F Magazine; Belt Magazine; The Daily Northwestern. AWARDS: Sitka Center for Art and Ecology residency; Puffin Foundation grant; DCASE Individual Artist grant; Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts residency; ACRE residency; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts residency; Awesome Foundation grant; Illinois Arts Council Agency grant; Propeller Fund grant; Santa Fe Art Institute residency.

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Description

This course explores various approaches to altering, enriching, and transforming the surface of pliable materials and forms. Emphasis is on the surface treatment and its relationship to structure while using conventional and non-conventional materials. Students work with a broad range of hand and machine stitching techniques that can include embroidery, embellishment, piecing, quilting, applique, and working with treatments like paints, dyes, adhesives, and collage. Special attention is paid to the histories of these techniques and how they are being utilized in contemporary art. Technical demonstrations, assigned readings, group discussions, lectures and field trips will augment student learning. The course is structured to support students in the development of their studio arts practice by equipping them with a variety of technical skills and encouraging them to pursue projects driven by their own formal, material, and conceptual concerns. Individual and group critiques are integral to the course.

Course work will vary but typically includes the creation of samples, critique projects, and reading responses.

Class Number

1548

Credits

3