We’re celebrating Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Los Angeles based artist Bovey Lee. Join us as we follow along Lee as she demonstrates on screen the popular traditional Chinese paper-cutting art form. The workshop is inspired by “Paper Stephanie,” a poem written by Stephanie Burt and included in her book Advice from the Lights. Burt will be in attendance and will open the workshop with a reading of her poem.

The event will be held on Zoom. Attendees are encouraged to work alongside the artist, or simply watch the art made in progress during this digital workshop. The activity will explore representation and identity and viewers are encouraged to participate in the discussion.

Participants are invited to share their completed artworks with the museum after the conclusion of the workshop via Facebook and Instagram.

The workshop is only accessible via Zoom and will be recorded. A link to the workshop will be sent on the day of the event.

The workshop is part of The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

About the Facilitators:

Bovey Lee is a Hong Kong born, Los Angeles based artist known for her contemporary cut paper. Her recent works explore migration and its impact on one’s sense of identity, home, and belonging. Lee came to the United States to study art and has earned dual MFA degrees in painting from University of California at Berkeley and digital arts from Pratt Institute in New York. She has exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, including Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada (solo); Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; Museum Kunst der Westkueste, Foehr, Germany; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco; among others. Follow the link for additional information about Bovey Lee and her work.

Stephanie Burt is the author of three poetry collections, Belmont, Parallel Play, and Popular Music, and several collections of critical works. Her other works include Don’t Read Poetry; Advice from the Lights; The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them; The Art of the Sonnet; Something Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler; The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th Century Poetry; Parallel Play: Poems; Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden; and Randall Jarrell and His Age. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The Believer, and the Boston Review. Follow the link for additional information about Stephanie Burt and her work.