HANJI EDITION: CONTEMPORARY WORKS ON KOREAN HANDMADE PAPER
ONLINE WEBINAR | OCTOBER 25, 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST
Hanji Edition is a producer of limited edition books, prints, and objects made with hanji, Korean handmade paper. In this talk, co-founders Steph Rue and Lars Kim will discuss their collaborative approach and what motivates them to publish books and prints on hanji. The talk will include a survey of past projects as well as a discussion of their current project, a collaborative book featuring prints by Korean American artists, to be released in 2024.
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ABOUT STEPH RUE & LARS KIM
Steph Rue is an artist working primarily with handmade paper and books as her medium. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book and BA from Stanford University. In 2015-2016 she studied Korean books, paper, print, and textiles through a Fulbright Research Grant to South Korea. Her works are held in private and public collections, including Yale University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, and the Asian Art Museum. Steph is a co-founder of the Korean American Artist Collective and a co-founder of Hanji Edition, a publisher of fine art and print works on hanji. She is a member of the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective and serves on the board of Hand Papermaking. Steph has taught at Mills College, Penland School of Craft, and the San Francisco Center for the Book. She lives and works out of her home studio in Sacramento, CA.
Lars Kim is a designer, printmaker and educator based in Portland, Oregon. After completing studies at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Copenhagen, she worked in architecture and new media before managing creative production at Logos Graphics in San Francisco. Her print work frequently blends multiple processes (offset, letterpress, screen print and intaglio) with Eastern, Western and experimental forms of hand papermaking and bookbinding.
Lars teaches at the San Francisco Center for the Book, where she created an artist’s book called Shipjangsaeng in 2017. She is also a member of From Jikji to Gutenberg, a UNESCO-supported transnational project which seeks to promote cultural democracy and understanding within historical printing narratives for a global audience. As an independent scholar, Lars investigates East Asian typography and the transmission of early printing technologies along the Silk Road. Her current research involves analysis of the Korean movable type collections at the Newberry Library and the Library of Congress.