Welcome, Yeseul Lee

The JSMA welcomes Yeseul Lee as our new Museum Educator for Community Engagement and Wellbeing.

Lee has a diverse background in art education. She is a native of Seoul, Korea, and currently resides in Portland/Eugene, Oregon. She received her BFA and Master of Education from North Dakota State University, and Master of Divinity from Sioux Falls Seminary (Kairos University). In her studies, she focuses on capturing interactive relationships between fine arts, theology, and creative process. More than 13 years of exposure to both the U.S. and Korean culture is also reflected in her work.

Her experience includes teaching art in K-12 schools, founding and directing an art studio, spiritual counseling, curating 30+ art exhibitions and collaborating with diverse groups of people. In her former role as an art teacher engaging K-12 students, Lee designed project-based lesson plans that connected multiple subjects, such as chemistry, biology, English, math, and visual arts. While she worked at a university gallery, she collaborated with the science department to design object-based lessons in which students were provided with the option of implementing the art collection as a tool to learn various subjects.