Arcadia Student Ceramicists Craft Plateware for Korean Exhibit at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Students from Arcadia University’s ceramics studio created plateware for the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Stir Restaurant that will be used as part of an exhibit called “The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989.”
The exhibit highlighted the “hyper-development” of South Korea after the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
“For most Koreans, the Olympics were the turning point,” said Hoon Rhee, executive chef at Stir who helped the students design the plateware. “That’s when the country started hyper-developing and when the culture really started taking off. Now, South Korea has a lot of soft power. That means they have influence in music and art and things like that.”
“This exhibit looked at what it means to be Korean in this day and age,” he added.