How Art Transforms Brokenness Into Beauty...
Lily Yeh calls herself a barefoot artist:
She travels the world with a suitcase full of art supplies, working with whoever wants to join her.
In an inspiring talk, she shares the fruits of her collaborative art projects that bring color, community and beauty to public spaces often seen as “broken."
Lily Yeh (born 1941, Guizhou, China) is an artist whose work has taken her to communities throughout the world.
She grew up in Taiwan and moved to the United States in 1963 to attend the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts.
Yeh was a professor of painting and art history at University of the Arts (Philadelphia) from 1968 until 1998.
As founder and executive director of The Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia from 1986 to 2004, she helped create a national model in creative place-making and community building through the arts.
In 2002, Yeh pursued her work internationally, founding Barefoot Artists, Inc.
In addition to the United States, she has carried out projects in several other countries.
Lily Yeh is the subject of the feature-length documentary film The Barefoot Artist directed by Glenn Holsten and Daniel Traub.
Yeh has been included in the Asian American Arts Centre's artasiamerica digital archive.
