Lee Talbot is assistant curator of Eastern Hemisphere Collections at The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. Before joining The Textile Museum, he served for two years as a curator at The Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul. He is a Ph.D. candidate at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in New York City, and serves on the editorial board of Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture.

Seta K. Wehbé is assistant collection manager of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was first introduced to piecing and quilting in the late 1970s while living in the Midwest. Wehbé began with the goal of making a baby quilt and quickly grew to love the art form. Since then, she has experimented with many techniques of textile manipulation and surface design (embroidery, appliqué, miniature piecing, felt-making, dyeing and printing), applying them to the wearable and decorative arts.

Chunghie Lee is a fiber artist and writer who teaches pojagi at the Rhode Island School of Design. She will lead special pojagi workshops at The Korea Society Gallery from February 24 to March 17, 2009. Lee's authoritative study and original interpretation of the art, Pojagi and Other Traditional Korean Wrapping Cloths, has inspired various wall pieces, sculptures and wearable works. She has lectured and exhibited extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Her artwork is on display in the collections of many institutions and museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Kwangju Costume Museum.