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Naoko Wowsugi is a Korean-Japanese Visual Artist[1][2]. She was born and raised in Japan and was a North Korean citizen.[3] She currently lives in D.C.[2] Wowsugi brings people together with collective hands on art projects that give back to their community.[4]
Early Life
[change | change source]When she was small, she dealt with social alienation, caused by being mixed; Korean and Japanese.[3] She values community, family, art and plants.[3][5] Wowsugi studied in the Osaka University of arts while she was in Japan. [1][2]She later moved to the United States in Rockville and finished her studies at the Kansas Art Institute.[1][2] She graduated with a BFA from both schools.[1][2] “As an artist, I emigrated from another country to America,” says Wowsugi. “Art making always connects people and I learn about the community."[6] She then started expressing "contemporary social community" through art at Rockville, a city in Maryland next to DC.[7]
Career Milestones: She started creating community projects In 2019 in Charleston, she started a Community project called the Fungus among us.[8] [1]Inspired by the mycelium network, more than 200 community members, toddlers to elders, collaborated together to create a mushroom parade in the neighborhood. The goal of this project was to show how fungi/mushrooms are so closely connected, similar to a strong community. Apart from this, her second project was called MICROCOSMOS. It was a planetarium about mushrooms. It was open for 10 days, and more than 2,000 people attended. Wowsugi is giving her community what she didn’t have as a child. Her goal is to make sure no one feels left out, no matter their age, gender or race.
“Mushrooms connect everything. Soil, plants, themselves. They're creating a whole ecosystem.”
-Naoko WowsugiNaoko Wowsugi is a Korean-Japanese Visual Artist. She was born and raised in Japan and was a North Korean citizen. She currently lives in D.C. Wowsugi brings people together with collective hands on art projects that give back to their community.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Naoko Wowsugi- Faculty Profile". American University. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Naoko Wowsugi". Halcyon. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Naoko Wowsugi : Group Portrait Journey". LENSCRATCH. 2017-01-28. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ↑ "Naoko Wowsugi Guided Artist Lecture". Dirt. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ↑ "Naoco Wowsugi". Naoco Wowsugi. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ↑ Reports, Staff (2019-03-13). "Redux and Enough Pie team up to show us how mushrooms connect everything and everyone". Charleston City Paper. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ↑ "Naoko Wowsugi "Permacounterculture"". SHIFT. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
- ↑ "Naoco Wowsugi". Naoco Wowsugi. Retrieved 2023-01-18.