Janice Suhji on identity and labels as a creative
Subscriber-exclusive extended conversation with Janice Suhji
Interviewed in November 2020
This conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.
Meet Janice Suhji, a Korean-American artist, designer, and ceramist based in Brooklyn. Janice shares how her creative journey started around figuring out what “meaningful” art was to her and blending that with finding answers to questions in her life.
We touch on her role as a designer and how it differs from being an artist. Plus, how her upbringing and experience of being Korean-born in America have opened her worldview. Lastly, she shares a bit about how some of it relates to her work as a ceramicist.
This is a subscriber-exclusive where we dive a little deeper into Janice’s identity and what labels mean to her roles as a creative.