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Shin-hee Chin

A Thousand Lives-Ruby Kendrick

Artist Statement: Ruby Kendrick (Jan 28, 1883-Jun 20,1908) served as a missionary to Korea in 1907 but died in less than a year. She died of appendicitis at Severance Hospital in Seoul. The words engraved on her tombstone in Yanghwajin foreign missionary cemetery in Seoul are these, "If I have a thousand lives, Korea should have them all." To honor her sacrifice, I made her portrait with a THOUSAND yoyos.

Bio: Shin-hee Chin is a fiber/mixed-media artist and Professor of the Visual Art Department at Tabor College. Chin’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Washington DC, Tokyo, Hampton, Geneva, Tainan, and Seoul.

Chin’s work was featured as the cover of the Studio Art Quilt Associates Journal (Spring 2017) and the cover of Surface Design Association Journal (Summer 2014).

As an esteemed educator for 15 years, Chin has taught drawing, painting, color theory, and mixed media. She was elected as Distinguished Faculty in 2008. Influenced by feminist traditions, Christian spirituality, and Eastern philosophy, Chin has created a coherent narrative addressing the complex issues of the female body, procreation and motherhood, mother tongue, cultural identity, cultural hybridity, and sense of belonging.