Online talk: Hanji’s American Branch – Aimee Lee

Date: Wednesday 13 November at 19:00 GMT

Venue: online presentation on Zoom

Speaker: Aimee Lee

Description:
Since 2007, Aimee Lee has been immersed in all things hanji, which is Korean paper. In this
talk, she will share her trajectory from the US to Korea in search of papermaking skills, ancestral
reclamation, and a sense of how to locate hanji in the global history of paper. This journey led to building
the first North American hanji studio, writing the first English-language book dedicated to hanji, and a
studio practice that continues to test the possibilities of this ancient yet contemporary substrate.
Through images and video, she will chart the path from direct transmission of intangible culture in the
Korean countryside to the seeding and flowering of hanji making, training, and awareness in America.

Cost: £20 for members, £40 for non-members

No limit on attendees.

Biography:
Aimee Lee is an artist who makes paper, writes, and advocates for Korean papermaking
practices. Designated as an Ohio Arts Council Heritage Fellow, she is a two-time Fulbright scholar to Korea, where she learned about making hanji, its applications, and its tools, and has studied with various Korean national and provincial holders of intangible cultural heritage since 2009. Her research led to the first hanji studio in North America, an award-winning book, Hanji Unfurled, and an active studio practice that includes jiseung, joomchi, paper textile, botanical paper, book art, and natural dyeing techniques.
She has shared these techniques and stories across the world and from her private hanji studio east of Cleveland.