Fall 2025 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series: Steph Rue

By College of Liberal Arts, Department of Art, Art History and Design, Interdisciplinary Arts, School of the Arts, The Lilley Museum, University Museum District

Thursday, October 23, 2025 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm Schulich Lecture Hall (SLH), 2 (View map)
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Please join us for our third Fall 2025 Visiting Artists+Scholars Lecture Series in the Department of Art, Art History & Design with Steph Ru. Steph Rue is an artist working primarily with handmade paper and books as her medium. She received her MFA degree from the University of Iowa Center for the Book and BA degree from Stanford University. She is a 2015-2016 recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant to South Korea, where she studied traditional Korean bookbinding, papermaking, and printing. Her artist books and paper works are held in a number of public and private collections, including Yale University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Steph is a co-founder of the Korean American Artist Collective and a member of the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective. She is also a co-founder of Hanji Edition, a publisher of fine art and print works with/on hanji. Steph teaches workshops and classes on papermaking, bookmaking, and related arts, with an emphasis on East Asian techniques, and has taught at Mills College, Penland School of Craft, and the San Francisco Center for the Book.

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  • Attendance type: In person
  • Cost: Free
  • Event type: Arts & Culture, Lectures & Seminars