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

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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 stitching as a means of altering the surface of textiles and other pliable materials, examining its role across functional, decorative, and contemporary arts practices. Students will develop skills in traditional and non-traditional hand manipulation, machine sewing, and digital embroidery, including the use of design software for embroidery machines. Quilting, piecework, and appliqué are taught through both hand methods and work created on home sewing and Tin Lizzie machines. Technical skills are taught within the context of fiber, craft, and fine art discourse, encouraging students to develop work driven by their own formal, material, and conceptual concerns. Lectures and assigned readings broaden this foundation, situating course content within the history and contemporary landscape of the field. Students present finished and in-progress work in individual and group critiques throughout the semester.

Class Number

1574

Credits

3