Pieces for a Piece Exhibition
Wed, Jun 03
|Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Mus
Curated by Youngmin Lee and Miran Lee On display from June 3, 2026 to August 23, 2026 2nd Floor
Time & Location
Jun 03, 2026, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Mus, 703 2nd St, La Conner, WA 98257, USA
About the event
Participating Artist: April EJ Oh, Caitlin Parker, Dong Kyu Kim, Miran L. Lee, Yoko Kubota, and Youngmin Lee
June 3, 2025 - August 23, 2025
Pieces for a Piece brings together six artists whose work is inspired by bojagi and jogakbo, the traditional Korean patchwork cloth made by stitching together small remnants of fabric. Historically used as wrapping cloths, jogakbo transformed discarded fragments into objects of quiet beauty—balancing practicality with a refined sense of composition and care.
Working across different cultural backgrounds and artistic practices, the artists reinterpret the language of patchwork in distinct ways—through memory, migration, landscape, ecology, consumer culture, and the experience of home. Their works reveal how fragments, when patiently assembled, can hold traces of time, labor, and lived experience.
As fragments gather into a piece, these works invite us to consider how making—slowly, patiently, by hand—continues to shape the ways we live.