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![Circular image of Gloria "smizing" through a particulate mask, standing in a ceramic's studio signing two fingers in a V, placed in a taupe background with her stylized name in dark blue to the right.](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2021-03/GH.jpg?itok=fImWJj4V)
Gloria Jue-Youn Han is a ceramic artist and arts educator who is living and working on the unceded territories of the Kwantlen and Kwikwetlem peoples. She earned her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a focus on traditional Korean ceramics. She studies with Master Jung-Hong Kim and uses Korean ceramics as a case study to understand how traditions are adapted, adopted, or created anew. She sees craft as a mode to express extreme care, commitment, intimacy, and love.