Young Yang Chung

Born: 1936

Biography:

Dr. Young Yang Chung is a master embroiderer, textile historian, and teacher. She earned a Ph.D. at New York University in 1976, with a doctoral dissertation on the origins of embroidery and its historical development of China, Japan, and Korea. Through lectures, publications, courses, workshops, and exhibitions of her work worldwide, she has endeavored to foster appreciation of an art form often stigmatized as