Korean Heritage - Embroidery

Korean Embroidery: 150 Years of Color, Culture, and Creativity

Embroidery is one of Korea’s oldest art forms and it remains a vibrant medium of expression for artists today. This lecture will introduce traditional Korean embroidery and explore how it has changed alongside Korea’s profound socio-economic transformations since the late nineteenth century. Lee Talbot, expert on East Asian Textile History, is curator at  Textile Museum, George Washington University from 2007, and lecturer in Art History Program. Talbot was previously curator at the Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum in Seoul, Korea. He graduated from Rhodes College with a bachelor’s degree, and holds a MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a master’s from Bard Graduate Center. He is completing his doctoral dissertation on Korean textiles and costume history at Bard.