Visiting Aritst Talk and Demo: Mi-Sook Hur

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RIT's metals and jewelry design program is welcoming metalsmith, enamelist and educator Mi-Sook Hur for an artist talk and demo. It is a hybrid event set for noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19. The in-person portion will be held in the metals and jewelry design studio (Booth Hall, room 3632). Those looking to join remotely can access the event via Zoom.

About Mi-Sook Hur

Mi-Sook Hur has exhibited her work at the Museum of Arts and Design, SOFA Chicago, Itami Museum of Arts and Crafts in Japan, and Vicenza Oro II in Italy. Her work has been included in The Art of Enameling: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration by Linda Darty, 500 Enameled, and Metalsmith. Hur has received prize awards from the Enamelist Society, Niche Awards, the Purchase Award from Arkansas Arts Center, and the European Design-an Asian Renaissance Evoked in Gold Award from the World Gold Council. She is a former artist-in-residence at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Jentel Foundation. She published a book chapter on Limoges enamels in The Art of Fine Enameling by Karen L. Cohen. Additionally, she has taught workshops at Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, John C. Campbell Folk School, Pocosin Arts School of Fine Crafts, EGNE, Pullen Art Center, Seoul National University, and Kookmin University. 

Her work is included in the collections of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (Little Rock, AR); Enamel Arts Foundations (Los Angeles, CA); Crocker Art Museum, (Sacramento, CA); John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI); Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA); Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI); Sunny & Gloria Kamm (CA); and Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT).


Contact
Juan Carlos Caballero-Perez
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When and Where
October 19, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Room/Location: Room 3632
Who

Open to the Public

Interpreter Requested?

No

Topics
student experience