Yeji Kim: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day

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The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) supports and provides resources to individuals and institutions who use the Library's digital materials to create projects that center communities of color. As a part of this work, Yeji Kim created a guide to help Asian American designers and textile artists create works based on historically and culturally significant fabrics from Asian communities and interviewed users to learn more about challenges they may face. Yeji decided to choose this audience because of both her personal interest in Asian textiles as well as the lack of centralized resources for this group. In the project, she first set historical context by looking into migration patterns and how fabrics have moved from Asia to America and studied how those fabrics were historically used in both countries. She also examined examples of how these kinds of materials were used in the U.S. and how designers could potentially use them in the future. Throughout the guide, she discussed appreciation versus appropriation in utilizing culturally historical fabrics and designs. Some of the sources she looked into include books about Asian textiles, images of Korean hanbok and traditional Hmong clothing, and conducted interviews with Library staff to get a better sense of these materials in the context of the American fashion industry. Several other themes touched on in this guide include the ideas of displacement and diaspora in the context of being Asian American,…

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