DanO 2020: Korean Textiles
Friday and Saturday, June 19 and 20, 2020, in St. Louis
(Postponed)
Textiles and Women’s Culture in Joseon-dynasty Korea & Jogakbo as a Meditative Art
The Gateway Korea Foundation has been sharing with the heartland community the beauty and goodness of Korean Arts and Culture, ancient and contemporary. Since hosting two inaugural events in 2014, one to celebrate DanO and the other to celebrate Chuseok, our programs have been growing. DanO and Chuseok are ancient Korean festivals, One to celebrate the end of planting season and the other to celebrate the harvest.
For DanO 2020, we added 2 additional programs to the previous DanO celebrations. The celebration will begin with a lecture by Dr. Talbot who will enlighten us on Korean garments, accessories and furnishings from several Korean and American Museum collections. Young Min Lee will follow Dr. Talbot’s lecture by delivering the Artist Talk and Artist Workshop, focusing on Jogakbo (patchwork) bojagi. The celebration will conclude with a Cross Cultural Discussion with several panelists on the uniqueness and commonality of the Korean textiles tradition with other cultural traditions.
In Dr. Talbot’s lecture will examine the role of textiles in light of Joseon literature and other visual arts from a time when women’s personal freedoms were greatly limited. In Ms. Lee’s Artist Talk, we will hear from her how she interprets her cultural heritage in the framework of modern and abstract art.
While we are very excited to share their expertise with everyone in the community, we are mindful that we may have to postpone DanO, which is planned for June 19th and 20th, because of the coronavirus.
Thank you for your patience and understanding during this uncertain time. Please follow our Gateway Korea Foundation media channels and join to become a member today.
Young Hie Nahm Kromm
Chair, DanO 2020 Committee
Gateway Korea Foundation
Speaker and Artist
Lee Talbot
Curator at The George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum in Washington, D.C.
Lee Talbot is Curator at The George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., where he specializes in East Asian textile history. Before joining the museum staff, he spent two and a half years as curator at the Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. He currently is preparing the exhibition Korean Fashion: From Royal Court to Runway, on view at The Textile Museum from August 22 through December 23, 2020.
Youngmin Lee
Textile artist living in San Francisco
Youngmin Lee is a textile artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her interest in textile led her to major Clothing and Textile in Inha University, Korea. She worked as a fashion designer for 2 years in Seoul and received MFA in Fashion Design at Ewha Womans University in Seoul Korea. After she moved to California with her family in 1996, she started creating textile art by hand stitching and sewing. She chose Bojagi (Korean wrapping cloth) as her creative medium and presented workshops on Korean Textile Arts including Bojagi workshops at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Oakland Museum, Richmond Art Center, Mendocino Art Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh PA, Textile Art Council of de Young Museum and numerous textile guilds and quilt shows including Festival of Quilts in Birmingham U.K. In addition to teaching in person, Youngmin created the DVD Bojagi: The Art of Wrapping Cloths in 2013 to reach people from afar. Teaching Korean traditional stitching art and sharing Korean culture take an important part in Youngmin’s life. She founded the Korean Textile Tour in 2017 to introduce Korean traditional textile art and culture. She leads the tour annually. Youngmin’s bojagi works have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and abroad.
Philip Hu
Curator of Asian Art at Saint Louis Art Museum
He joined the Museum in 2006 and initiated the Museum’s first gallery for Korean art. Philip received a BA in architecture from UC Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from UCLA. He subsequently received his MA in Chinese art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he also completed all the coursework for the PhD program. He taught East Asian art history at New York University and at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Friday Festival
June 19, 2020
6:00-8:15 pm
[Korean Textiles]
This year's lecture by Dr. Lee Talbot, Curator at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, will focus on Textiles and Women’s Culture in Joseon Dynasty Korea (1392-1910). For millennia, Korean women invested much time and energy into textile production, from cultivating and spinning fibers to dyeing, weaving and sewing. Dr. Talbot’s lecture will present a dazzling selection of garments, accessories and furnishings from Korean and American museum collections, to explore the role of textiles in upper-status women’s lives during the Joseon dynasty. Examined in light of Joseon literature and other visuhal arts, these fabrics reveal that textiles could provide a creative, expressive outlet for women’s feelings as well as a valued source of family income and wealth.
Friday, June 19th, 2020
St. Louis Art Museum, Farrell Auditorium
6pm-7pm Reception, meet and greet in Farrell Auditorium lobby: Children’s choirs from Korean Academy of St.Louis
7pm-8:15pm Lecture in Farrell Auditorium:
Admission: Free Admission
(Presented in partnership with the Saint Louis Art Museum)
Saturday Festival
June 20, 2020
There are multiple programs on Saturday, June 20, 2020.
The first program helds at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Ms. Youngmin Lee, a textile artist living in the San Francisco Bay area, will offer a lecture (10:30 am - 11:30 am), and a workshop (12:30 - 2:30 pm), offering an hands-on opportunity to create “bok jumoni” Korean Fortune Pouches. Her lecture is entitled The Artist Voice: Jogakbo as a Meditative Art . Jogakbo, or patchwork bojagi, embodies the philosophy of recycling, as these common utilitarian products are made from remnants of leftover fabrics. Thoughtfully arranged in shapes and colors, jogakbo often shows very modern and abstract compositions from Korean women’s creative sensibilities. Ms. Lee will show how she uses a variety of materials including hand-dyed fabrics to make bogagi in a style that embraces both modern aesthetics and traditional techniques. Her lecture will be followed by an Artist’s Workshop offering opportunity for St. Louis area artists to create “bok jumoni” Korean Fortune Pouches.
The Saturday Festival will conclude with the Gateway Korea Foundation's annual Dano Reception, a Fundraisingdinner, and a Panel Discussion at CityPlace1 in Creve Coeur. Fo a panel discussion, Dr. Lee Talbot will be joined by Philip Hu, Curator of Asian Art, St. Louis Art Museum and alocal textile arts expert and discuss traditional and contemporary textile art in Korea and around the world. Evening’s events will include a fundraising dinner, proceeds of which will support the mission and ongoing activities of the Gateway Korea Foundation.
[Korean Textile Artist’s Talk and Workshop]
Saturday, June 20, 2020 (Lecture Free to public; Workshop by invitation only)
10:30-11:30 am Lecture, Ms. Youngmin Lee: The Artist Voice: Jogakbo as a Meditative Art
12:30-2:30 pm Artists’ Workshop - Creating Bok Jumoni, Korean “Fortune Pouches”
Education Center Classroom, Saint Louis Art Museum, One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis (63110)
(Presented in partnership with the Saint Louis Art Museum)
[Reception, Fund Raising Korean Buffet Dinner, and Panel Discussion]
Saturday, June 20, 2020
4:00-5:00 pm Reception with Dr. Lee Talbot
5:00-6:30 pm Panel Discussion: Textile Arts of Korea and Countries around the World (Dr. Lee Talbot; Philip Hu, Curator of Asian Arts, St. Louis Art Museum, and special guest)
7:00-8:30 pm GKF Buffet Dinner with Traditional Korean Food, and Program
Lakeside Patio & Auditorium at CityPlace1, 1 CityPlace Drive, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
Saturday Festival is $60 per person to support the ongoing activities of Gateway Korea Foundation and includes buffet Korean dinner and beverages. There is an option of $10 per person for panel discussion only.