Water, Papers & Rhythm

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Center for Visual Art, MSU Denver

Korean paper felting exploration with Sammy Seung-min Lee.

Center for Visual Art

Participants will explore an array of felting and casting techniques with Hanji (Korean Mulberry paper). You carefully soak Hanji into water, drain the excess and massage it to rid of air pockets. Then you knead, pound, layer, and beat the sheets in order to transform Hanji’s fibers from a delicate substrate into a resilient material that is as tough as leather, while retaining its beautiful, luminous quality. Felted sheets are beautiful as-is, or suitable for various art applications. Participants may bring a small object to use in casting the felted sheets. Hanji is made from the inner bark of the mulberry tree and has longer and stronger fibers that are widely known amongst paper makers. No previous experience necessary. Please bring: - small object (less than 10” at any length) to cast – optionalAll other materials will be supplied.

About the Artist/Instructor:Sammy Lee is an artist based in Denver, Colorado. Lee was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to Southern California at the age of sixteen. She studied fine art and media art at UCLA and architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Among her many accomplishments is a performative collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma during the Bach project tour in 2018. Lee is recently a resident artist at Redline, serves as an ambassador for Asian Art at Denver Art Museum, and operates a contemporary art project and residency space, called Collective SML | k in Santa Fe Art District, Denver. ​Lee's work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections at the Getty Research Institute, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and the Spanish National Library in Madrid.Learn more about her work at: <a href="https://www.studiosmlk.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.studiosmlk.com</a> **************************************************************************************************

See Sammy Seung-min Lee's work in the <a href="https://temp.msudenver.edu/cva/exhibitions/currentexhibition/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Armor</a> exhibition at CVA through October 16, 2021. For more information visit: <a href="https://msudenver.edu/cva/exhibitions/10biennialartdept/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.msudenver.edu/cva/</a>First time to CVA? Check out our <a href="https://msudenver.edu/cva/about/faqs/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">FAQ's</a> for answers to commonly asked questions about parking, hours and more.

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