Herin Lee
2024 Scholarship Winner
Billerica High ~ Rhode Island School of Design
We are excited to announce that Herin Lee is the winner of our 2024 Scholarship! This amazing artist graduated Billerica High and is going to Rhode Island School of Design RISD this fall.
Herin has wonderful talent in several mediums and has won awards in the Massachusetts Art Education Association Emerging Artists Recognitions Exhibits and the Scholastic Key Art Awards. She also scored in the 1.36% of the world wide AP Drawing Exam.
This year her painting “Vulnerable” (above) was the Grand Prize Winner in the Congressional Art Show 6th District . It will be exhibited at the Capitol Building in Washington DC for one year.
pastel
MAEA Art Educator Award
KEY
acrylic on canvas
“I have always loved art. I grew up drawing everywhere, even on the furniture and walls of our house, and I never grew out of that passion. Creating art provides me the time to reflect and investigate, explore and experiment, recognize and reconcile so that I can continue to grow and evolve. Art helps me to voice unconventional ideas and show my passionate views on life, despite the deeply rooted Asian values that encourage modesty and restrained expressions.
Evocative in the light or dark, close up you can see the technical skill and imagination that went into her “What I Can’t Show” installation created and exhibited at Studio Noma in Waltham. Herin drew on her cultural background creating Korean masks in paper mâché, then personalized them with individual colorful printmaking, hanging them with ribbon and LED lights .
color pencil, printed news SILVER KEY
Teapot: clay
soft pastel, modeling paste, acrylic on cardboard box GOLD KEY + MAEA BIPOC Student Award
We wish her wonderful success in her future in art. Congratulations Herin!
