Welcome to the Megaphone Series: a speaker series in the Student’s Association Community Hub Wellness channel seeking to amplify diverse voices in our community. We hope to learn from artists that have made space for themselves in an art system that is often not very equitable. We hope to ignite our students to disrupt our systems and amplify their voices for new ways of making art by deepening their understanding on the role of artists in society.
This series is funded in part by our health and dental providers Student VIP from BlueCross and should relate back to a topic of health and wellness in a holistic sense. We recognize that marginalized artists face many barriers in their art careers that has a deep effect on their physical and mental wellbeing. Racism and marginalization affect everyone's health. We also recognize that many artists have shown resilience in their practice through acts of resistance in an art system that continues to underserve them.
We celebrate the powerful strategies by exemplary artists to live and work authentically and fully in their art practice.
We invite Gloria Jue-Youn Han to our 1st Megaphone talk!
Gloria Jue-Youn Han makes art that investigates how traditions are altered, adapted, and created anew by diasporic peoples. She draws connections between her experience as a first-generation Korean-Canadian daughter of immigrants and the ways in which traditions survive through tumultuous events in history. In this connection, she is able to use craft to communicate moments of extreme care, commitment, intimacy, and love.
She received the BC Arts Council Early Career Development Grant to partake in a mentorship with master potter Clay Jung-Hong Kim and Sylvia Kim to increase the rigour in her ongoing studies with them in traditional Korean ceramics. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and her Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, she is an instructor for Langara College which is located on the unceded territory of the Musqueam Nation.
