July 21-25, 2008

In-Service Course (3-P)
for K-12 Educators

Encounter Korean history and culture through color and brushstroke. By utilizing art history and social studies scholarship, teachers will investigate Korean culture by examining art from the historic period to the contemporary art scene and explore Korean art in relation to the arts of other world cultures. This rich course includes hands-on calligraphy and painting workshops, field trips to major New York City art collections and master sessions on adaptation of the course material to the classroom. Participants who complete the required coursework and final assignment will be eligible for 3-P credit from the New York City Department of Education's After School Professional Development Program (ASPDP). 

Dates: July 21-25, 2008 (sessions run from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM)

The course will meet at The Korea Society, 950 Third Avenue (at the southwest corner of 57th Street), Eighth Floor, New York, NY 10022.

Online Registration is available now at (Click here.)
 
Fee: $175 payable when registering online

For more information, please contact Jennifer Kim at The Korea Society at (212) 759-7525 ext. 309 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 
Korea through Art Schedule

About the Presenters

Elizabeth Brotherton has been teaching in the Department of Art History at the State University of New York-New Paltz since 1994. Brotherton's area of specialty is the arts in late imperial China, especially painting and art theory, art and politics and the relationship between painting and literature. She received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Chinese painting and calligraphy in 1992.

Anne Savitri Drillick has taught both art and gifted and special education in New Jersey public and private schools for over fifteen years. She also has taught in alternative education programs as well as for cultural institutions, including the Asia Society, The Korea Society and the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Her art work has been exhibited at galleries in New Jersey and New York.

Kumja Paik Kim became the first fulltime curator of Korean art in any American museum when she joined the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco eighteen years ago. Kim more than doubled the museum's Korean holdings to create the most comprehensive collection of Korean art outside of Korea.  Upon her retirement, the museum celebrated Kim's tenure by issuing a comprehensive catalogue of the collection she had spent years assembling. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Cheeyun Kwon assumed the role of curator of Korean art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in January 2007. Her prior curatorial experience was gained at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution while she was completing graduate study in the U.S.  From 1999 to 2006, she taught East Asian and Korean art at several Korean universities, including Seoul National University, Yonsei University and Ehwa Woman's University. She received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in East Asian and Korean art history in 1999.  

Soyoung Lee joined the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum in 2003. She is the Met's first curator dedicated to Korean art, and is responsible for expanding the Met's Korean collection and for organizing exhibitions on Korean art. Her spring 2008 show, Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens, received enthusiastic reviews in the New York press. Her next exhibition, in spring 2009, highlights the arts of the early Chosŏn period, 1400-1600.

Matthew McKelway is currently Atsumi Associate Professor of Japanese Art History at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of Japanese painting, concentrating on Kyoto from the 16th-18th centuries. His research has focused on urban representation and politics in late medieval Kyoto and the development of genre painting in early modern Japan.

Grace Park, an independent artist from Potomac, Maryland, has exhibited her work in numerous art shows, including solo shows in 1977 and 1979, and is the recipient of many awards. In 1981, the Smithsonian Institution included seven of her paintings in its exhibition of Contemporary Korean American Art. In 1988, one of her paintings was selected for inclusion in a juried art show sponsored by the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. She has experience conducting workshops on Korean art for teachers and has taught at the Smithsonian Institution as well as many community colleges.

Patricia Rosof taught social studies at Hunter College High School for nineteen years and is the co-author of Student Preparation Guide for the AP European History Exam. She has worked as a consultant for the College Board and The Korea Society.