Northern Clay Center welcomes Spring McKnight Artist Resident Hyang Jin Cho as part of the NCC community from April through June.

A ceramic artist, researcher, and educator, Cho has been developing her practice, knowledge, and understanding of the arts in academia since 1991. Exploring themes of diversity and community, Cho’s work is composed of modules that suggest human relations and interdependency in our society. Representing the vulnerability of the individual, each component is connected to the next, holding one another, and functioning as a member of a larger system to survive together. Cho writes, “As an immigrant to the United States, I have questioned the meaning of home for a long time. Feeling like an outsider, I didn’t belong to the place where I had been living. They were merely places I had temporarily stayed, not my home. Since I have made vessels and objects, however, I finally have felt home in the place I live, looked around at my neighbors and community with care, and engaged with people.”