The February Member Meeting will be held on the 21th , one week later in the month than normal because of a special guest speaker.
This month Sho Fu welcomes guest artist Young Choe for a demo and lecture on kusamono. We will be raffling off some of her pieces and auctioning off her largest piece THAT night so bring your wallets and pocketbooks!
The meeting will start at 6:30 pm @ Selby Gardens in the Great Room
Young Choe’s BIO
Young Choe is a kusamono artist who studied traditional art in her native Korea before moving to the United States and earning her BS in horticulture from the University of Maryland. While volunteering at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, she brought her artistic talent together with her knowledge of horticulture to create kusamono. As her interest developed, Young traveled to Japan to study the unique art form with the master kusamono artist, Keiko Yamane, a former student of Saburo Kato. She worked for many years with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) including the U.S. National Arboretum. Young is considered a leader in the field and enjoys conducting workshops and lectures nationally as well as internationally.
