Aimee Lee
2026-2027 THOMAS SCHROTH VISITING ARTIST SERIES
Aimee Lee
Spring 2027
Artist
Collaborators: Sarah Spinner, Jillian Sokso, Mourad Krifa
Internationally renowned papermaking artist Aimee Lee, recently and featured in The New York Times,will bring the centuries-old Korean tradition of hanji to Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹. Lee will open with a free public lecture this fall and return for a two-day hands-on workshop in spring 2027, alongside a solo exhibition* of her work at the Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Museum.
*The "Aimee Lee: Every Last Scrap" exhibition is generously sponsored by Ken Robinson and by Pamela Jacobson, with operating support from the Ohio Arts Council.
Public Lecture
Free and open to the public
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026 at 5 p.m.
Murphy Auditorium, Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Museum
515 Hilltop Dr., Kent, OH
The public lecture given by Aimee Lee is sponsored in part by Dr. Chris Sullivan and presented in community partnership with Case Western Reserve University Lifelong Learning.
Korean Papermaking Workshop
Feb. 26-27, 2027
Registration required | Limited to Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ undergraduate and graduate students and faculty
Lee will lead a two-day, hands-on workshop in which participants learn the fundamentals of making hanji — traditional Korean paper — from paper mulberry bark.
The workshop will include a guided tour of Lee's Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Museum exhibition led by curator and Professor Sara Hume, giving participants a deeper look at the conceptual and material dimensions of the work on view.
Time and location forthcoming. Registration details forthcoming.
Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Aimee Lee
Aimee Lee is a papermaking artist who advocates for Korean papermaking as an Ohio Arts Council Heritage Fellow and Midwest Culture Bearer Awardee, and travels the world to exhibit, teach, and expand hanji access and capacity. Her Fulbright research led to the first hanji studio in North America, an award-winning book—Hanji Unfurled—and a studio practice that involves jiseung, joomchi, botanical paper, book art, and natural dyeing techniques. Her 2021 Fulbright Senior Scholar research focused on bamboo screens for hanji and her second book, As Good as Our Tools, was published in 2025 by The Legacy Press.
Collections that hold her art include Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Museum, and the libraries of Brooklyn Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Rijksmuseum, Harvard, Oxford, Smithsonian, Stanford, UCLA, and Yale, among others. Her art has been featured at Allen Memorial Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fuller Craft Museum, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, and Korean Cultural Centers of D.C., NYC, and Abu Dhabi, and by The Korea Times, The New York Times, The Plain Dealer, KBS World Radio, PBS, VOA, and CNN's Great Big Story.
She teaches and lectures widely, including at the American Museum of Natural History, Asian Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Oberlin College, MassArt, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Penland School of Crafts. Funders include the US Fulbright Program, Korea Fulbright Foundation, John Anson Kittredge Fund, Assembly for the Arts, Arts Midwest, American Folklore Society, Center for Craft, CERF+, Manhattan Graphics Center, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, Puffin Foundation, and SPACES. She shares her resources freely on her site,
