Korean Folk Arts-Minhwa and Korean Dance

Dates: Saturday, May 30, 2015
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

At: Queens Museum of Art

Category:

Korean Folk Arts

Through this 8-week long workshop instructors will blend visual and performing arts together to introduce Korean Folk Arts. Participants will learn techniques of traditional Korean folk painting (Minhwa) by replicating existing paintings, and by creating their own with mulberry paper and watercolor with artist Seongmin Ahn. Participants will also take part in a special 2-session workshop with dancer and choreographer Bo Kyung Lee that encourages the expression of emotion and art through body movement and Korean dance.

Seongmin Ahn received an M.F.A. in Asian traditional painting
from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea and an M.F.A from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work transforms Asian traditional painting into something experimental with personal interpretations, working to bridge tradition with our milieu, and East with West. She has exhibited locally and internationally, also received prestigious awards and grants including Pollock Krasner Foundation grant.

Bo Kyung Lee received her M.A and Ph. D. in the Department of Dance at Hanyang University. She has held positions as the Director of the Korean Association of Dance and as the Principal Dancer at the Milmul Modern Dance Company. She has been presented with prestigious awards and fellowships. She is currently the Artistic Director of the BK Dance Project which aims to bring together the diverse influences of the arts genre and to express these through performers’ movements.

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