Aletheia Chin speaks about the Onggi Project: March 5
On Korean Communities in Station North
Location
On Campus
Date & Time
March 5, 2015, 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Description
Baltimore Traces: Stories of the City’s Changing Neighborhoods Presents
Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin
Maryland College of Arts (MICA)
Community Arts
on the Onngi Project in Station North
March 5
ITE 233, 2:30-3:45pm
Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin explores the transnational, inter-cultural nature of the Korea Diaspora in the methodology of community based art practice. Incorporating the methodology of community organizing and storytelling in her artistic praxis, she focuses on building local leadership through creative platforms that promote solidarity and community voices in Baltimore. Collaborating as an artistic asset in various Korean communities, Aletheia seeks to facilitate the creation of artistic narrative projects as a vehicle to nurture culture, build community, and bring awareness to the long standing Korean community in Baltimore.
The Onngi Project is a series of traditional Korean vessels shaped forms created by or in collaboration with various Korean communities in Baltimore. As Onngi is a significant vessel form for Koreans used for over 5000 years to store everyday foods, it serves as a metaphor for the history and wisdom in the untold story of Korean community in Baltimore. Through the Onngi Project, Korean community partners including first generation Korean immigrants at the Greenmount Senior Center, Vendors at the Northeast Market, and current undergraduate Korean MICA students collaboratively come together to educate and raise awareness of the longstanding yet untold presences of the Korean community in Baltimore. In collaboration with various partakers of the Korean communities, together we explore our past and present journey living as Koreans in America. Wrestling in the dual consciousness of being both a Korean and becoming part of the palate of the United States, we set on a journey for in exploring our stories that will ground and connect us to the world that surrounds us.
Baltimore Traces Project is funded by an Hrabowski Innovation Grant & BreakingGround at UMBC
For more information, contact Dr. Nicole King, nking@umbc.edu
Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin
Maryland College of Arts (MICA)
Community Arts
on the Onngi Project in Station North
March 5
ITE 233, 2:30-3:45pm
Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin explores the transnational, inter-cultural nature of the Korea Diaspora in the methodology of community based art practice. Incorporating the methodology of community organizing and storytelling in her artistic praxis, she focuses on building local leadership through creative platforms that promote solidarity and community voices in Baltimore. Collaborating as an artistic asset in various Korean communities, Aletheia seeks to facilitate the creation of artistic narrative projects as a vehicle to nurture culture, build community, and bring awareness to the long standing Korean community in Baltimore.
The Onngi Project is a series of traditional Korean vessels shaped forms created by or in collaboration with various Korean communities in Baltimore. As Onngi is a significant vessel form for Koreans used for over 5000 years to store everyday foods, it serves as a metaphor for the history and wisdom in the untold story of Korean community in Baltimore. Through the Onngi Project, Korean community partners including first generation Korean immigrants at the Greenmount Senior Center, Vendors at the Northeast Market, and current undergraduate Korean MICA students collaboratively come together to educate and raise awareness of the longstanding yet untold presences of the Korean community in Baltimore. In collaboration with various partakers of the Korean communities, together we explore our past and present journey living as Koreans in America. Wrestling in the dual consciousness of being both a Korean and becoming part of the palate of the United States, we set on a journey for in exploring our stories that will ground and connect us to the world that surrounds us.
Baltimore Traces Project is funded by an Hrabowski Innovation Grant & BreakingGround at UMBC
For more information, contact Dr. Nicole King, nking@umbc.edu
