Performance & Clay Workshop

3 PM: Clas­si­cal Gui­tar Per­for­mance by Kyo-Hyuk Lee

Trained at a music con­ser­va­to­ry in Spain, Kyo-Hyuk Lee is cur­rent­ly a Gui­tar Ensem­ble instruc­tor at the Buck­ley School in New York.

3:40 – 5:00 PM: Clay Sculp­ture Work­shop led by artist Hsin-Yi Liu

Hsin-Yi Liu, whose two works are on view in the cur­rent exhi­bi­tion, stud­ied oil paint­ing and sculp­ture at the Art Stu­dents League of New York and devel­oped a strong focus on fine art. Her work has been exhib­it­ed both nation­al­ly and internationally.

Lit­tle Acorn, 2024. is a human-like fig­ure stands on an acorn, with petals encir­cling its neck. The acorn sym­bol­izes the for­est and ecosys­tem, while the fig­ure’s stance rep­re­sents ​“human­i­ty’s place in nature.” The petals around the neck sig­ni­fy the fusion of humans and plants, con­vey­ing the idea that ​“we must reestab­lish a sym­bi­ot­ic rela­tion­ship with nature; oth­er­wise, human­i­ty’s form and way of exis­tence will be forced to change.

Bavis the Shih Tzu, 2025。 Clay and wood stick. the work explores the inte­gra­tion of tree branch­es with the envi­ron­ment. The branch­es were col­lect­ed by the artist from Prospect Park, and the fig­ure is mod­eled after the artist’s for­mer Shih Tzu. The fall­en branch­es in Prospect Park may be rem­nants left behind by storms or sea­son­al changes. By incor­po­rat­ing them into the art­work, the piece sym­bol­izes the trans­for­ma­tions in nature and the impact of human intervention.

Tai­wanese Amer­i­can Arts Coun­cil one of the 2025 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.