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traditional Korean onggis
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EXPRESSIONS
Art
ambassador’s
vessels
Ceramics professor shares
art professor sukjin Choi is bringing the world of
Korean ceramics to JMU art students and the local
community. The seoul, Korea, native says that she
loves “to introduce american artists, especially students,
to my style of onggis” — traditional Korean
storage jars.
Choi, who teaches three ceramics classes, displayed
her latest works at the Franklin street gallery
in Harrisonburg from nov. 2 to dec. 17. The
exhibit featured nearly 30 ceramic pots in light and
dark hues of blue, brown, green and white. Choi
uses a 12th-century Korean traditional inlay as a surface
technique of her onggis. she carves lines on the
outside of the pots, fills them with liquid clay and
scrapes the pieces into smooth unified pieces. The
curved lines of onggi drew Choi to the medium. “i
love to draw curved lines. it’s a movement; it’s my
language, and i love to share it,” she says.
Choi will discuss her onggi, sculpture and drawings
on March 13 at duke Hall, Room 240, at 7
p.m., as part of the College of Visual and Performing
arts Faculty Lecture series. M
About the Artist: Art professor Sukjin Choi started
teaching ceramic courses at Madison last fall after earning an
M.F.A. in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has
created ceramics for more than 20 years, and she earned bachelor’s
and master’s degrees from the Ewha Womans University
in Seoul, Korea.
Madison Magazine
‘I love to draw
curved lines. It’s a
movement; it’s my
language, and I
love to share it.’
— SukjIn choI,
Ceramics professor
photograph by aaron stewart (’08)