Hanji Hang: Korean Papermaking and Dinner

Join Ridgewood Ranch and visiting artists Steph Rue and Chris Enumi Yi-Suh for a friendly evening of food and art making!
Make your art and eat it too!

Grab a plate of food dreamed up by Chef Caroline and made from plants and animals raised here on the ranch, and then incorporate some of those same plants into your one-of-a-kind, handmade Korean paper! Ridgewood is so excited to be hosting these masters of the ancient papermaking technique called hanji. You will use papermaking tools generously provided by renowned Japanese paper company Hiromi Paper to craft beautiful sheets and you’ll also get to talk to Chris and Steph about their practices.

Questions?

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About the artists:

Steph Rue is an artist working primarily with handmade paper and books as her medium. She received her MFA degree from the University of Iowa Center for the Book and BA degree from Stanford University. She is a 2015-2016 recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant to South Korea, where she studied traditional Korean bookbinding, papermaking, and printing. Her artist books and paper works are held in a number of public and private collections, including Yale University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Steph is a co-founder of the Korean American Artist Collective and a member of the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective. She is also a co-founder of Hanji Edition, a publisher of fine art and print works with/on hanji. Steph teaches workshops and classes on papermaking, bookmaking, and related arts, with an emphasis on East Asian techniques, and has taught at Mills College, Penland School of Craft, and the San Francisco Center for the Book.

www.stephrue.com/

Chris (she/they), is a queer diasporic korean artist, writer, singer, and spiritual care practitioner. As an artist-mystic, she believes in the power of creativity and storytelling as a path to cultivating spiritual and social change. As a facilitator and retreat curator, she holds sacred space primarily for women of color, femmes, queer, trans, gender expansive folks of color through spiritual accompaniment, healing rituals, creative and somatic practices. Her hope for the individuals and communities she works with is to support their ancestral connection, divine agency & interiority, and assist their healing journey in ways that aid collective liberation.

https://www.chrisyisuh.com/

Cost:

Hanji-making:

$5-30 per person sliding scale.

Venmo @stephrue in advance or on site. Cash also accepted on site.

Dinner (optional):

$10-30 sliding scale per person. Farm-to-table.

CASH ONLY accepted on site.