Chunghie Lee
Chunghie Lee, an internationally renowned fiber artist and
lecturer, as a Fulbright Scholar to Rhode Island School of Design
in 1994 and has been teaching Bojagi & Beyond since 1999. She
was an invited artist/designer for the 'Fashion in Motion' program
at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in 2001.
The V & A museum also holds her pieces in their permanent
collection among many other museums. Lee's work has been exhibited
in numerous solo and group shows in Korea, USA, England, France,
Australia, and Germany among other countries. Lee works as
independent curator as well.
Chunghie approach to teaching Bojogi is to teach an appreciation of
its history, usage and its role in Korean society, alongside the
making, while applying the technique to modern interpretation.
