Hee Joo Yang
Yang is a ceramicist from Seoul, Korea and served as OOMA’s inaugural artist-in-residence at our City of Biloxi Center of Ceramics during July 2021. Hee Joo Yang creates ceramic sculpture, video, sound, and installations that explore a sense of time, space, and emotional expression. During her residency at OOMA this past summer, Yang created a site-specific version of her Cave pieces. This large-scale suspended ceramic work emits sound. Yang is partially deaf, she records everyday sounds and manipulates them using her non-deaf ear until they illustrate the way she experiences sound through her deaf ear.
Windgate Foundation was established in 1993 and is a private, family foundation based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Windgate’s goal is to advance contemporary craft and strengthen visual arts education in the United States. The foundation also supports children and youth in the State of Arkansas. windgatefoundation.org