Korean Papermaking–Hanji & Joomchi

Discover the tactile beauty of hanji, traditional Korean handmade paper. In this hands-on workshop, use the ssangbal ddeugi method to transform raw plant fiber into luminous sheets of hanji, cooking, hand-beating, forming, and drying each piece. Also, explore joomchi, a wet-felting technique that transforms hanji into textural surfaces. Leave with a collection of handmade papers and the foundational skills to integrate hanji into your own artistic practice.

$65

Robert Choe-Henderson is a Korean American artist and educator living in Florida. Inspired by the resiliency of the Asian diaspora casting across fine arts, craft, and book cultures, Robert uses his training in traditional East Asian papermaking and book arts to explore ethnic and gender dynamics within Asian American identity through an interdisciplinary approach to exhibition and scholarship. Spending most of his childhood surrounded by practitioners of traditional Korean papercrafts, his adaptations to hanji (Korean handmade paper) and jiseung (traditional paper weaving) are profound in his sculptural artist’s books and woven structures. He remembers the hours of paper twisting and cording alongside his halmony, listening to memories of a life stricken with heartache during an occupied Korea, redevelopment after the war, and shock within new American culture. Paying homage to halmony’s transparency, he brings his own narratives to tangible form, connecting Korean roots with American.