Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee • Artist • Writer

I am one of the founding members of the Sketchbook Project Library!

This "library" of sketchbooks will be traveling around the country. Exhibitions will be at the following galleries for a limited time only:

Art House Gallery in Atlanta, GA - January 29-30, 2010

303Grand in Brooklyn, NY - February 19-21, 2010

Art and Shelter Gallery at The Salvation Army - Los Angeles, CA - April 8-11, 2010

Soulard Art Market - St. Louis, MO - April 16-18, 2010

Home Gallery - Chicago, IL - May 7-9, 2010

If you're in any of these cities, stop and in spend some intimate time with an artist's sketchbook!

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The signings in NYC has been cancelled (due to the closure of Gourmet magazine)!

Since my book, Quick & Easy Korean Cooking, was chosen as Gourmet's Cookbook of the Month in June,
I've been invited do signings at the Gourmet Marketplace
Saturday, October 24th 11:30am - 12:30pm and
Sunday, October 25th, 12:15 - 1:30pm
Altman Building - 135 W. 18th Street (btwn 6th & 7th Avenues
Sorry! The events have been CANCELLED! Since Gourmet is sadly closing its doors after 70 years!

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the Cooking Class for the Korea Society
will be postponed for sometime in 2010, when I'm on the East Coast again.

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The Canvas Project at the Atlantic Airport!

Each artist was given 5 tiny canvases and 5 random words. We created a "Visual Encyclopedia" of the words. If you're flying through Atlanta, take a look and see if you can guess which images represent what word.

The exhibit was up at the Atlanta Airport Atrium Gallery - July 31st through September 4th
and at the Art House Gallery through September 25th.

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As my last signing (for awhile), I went down to the Costco in Garden Grove.
Saturday, August 15th at Noon
Signing at the Costco in Garden Grove
11000 Garden Grove Blvd., Garden Grove, CA 92843 • (714) 638-6308

Thanks to everyone who came by, bought large watermelons and bought books!

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Thursday, July 30th at 7:30pm
Informal talk and slide show at the Pacific Asia Museum (Authors on Asia program)
46 N. Los Robles Av, Pasadena, CA 91101 • (626) 449-2742

There will be Korean snacks and some refreshing hwachae (watermelon punch, pictured above)
from Quick & Easy Korean Cooking. Hope you can join us!

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Thank you to everyone who made my little Book Tour a resounding success!

Thursday, July 9th at 6:30 pm
Cooking Class at Barbara-Jo's Books to Cooks
1740 West 2nd Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6J 1H6 CANADA • (604) 688-6755 • (866) 688-6744
Join me at Barbara -Jo's at 4pm, when I demonstrate a recipe for the CBC's North by Northwest.

Friday, July 10th at 6:30 pm
Signing and sampling of Korean snacks at Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155 • (206) 366-3333

Saturday, July 11th from 1:00-3:00pm
Cooking class at J. Matheson Kitchen & Gourmet
2609 Colby Ave., Everett WA 98201 • (425) 258-4589
This event is SOLD OUT! An additional date has been added on 7/15th (see below).

Tuesday, July 14th at 7:30pm
Talk and slide show at Elliott Bay Books
101 S.Main St., Seattle, WA 98104 • (206) 624-6600

Wednesday, July 15th from 6:00-8:00pm
Cooking class at J. Matheson Kitchen & Gourmet
2609 Colby Ave., Everett WA 98201 • (425) 258-4589
This event was also SOLD OUT!

Saturday, July 18th from 10:00am-1:30pm
Cooking class and luncheon at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th St., Suite 290, Oakland , CA 94607 • (510) 637-0455
This event is SOLD OUT!

Saturday, July 18th, 3:00-5:00pm
Meet and greet at the Tyler Florence Shop
59 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 • (415) 380-9200

Thursday, July 30th at 7:30pm
Informal lecture and slide show at the Pacific Asia Museum (Authors on Asia program)
46 N. Los Robles Av, Pasadena, CA 91101 • (626) 449-2742

Hopefully, I'll be in your neighborhood soon!

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I am so happy to be able to share the cover of my latest cookbook, "Quick and Easy Korean Cooking!"

It's filled with delicious and easy recipes that take 30 minutes or less of work time
(I swear! I cooked each and every one of them with a timer!).
Complete with color photos from food photographer Julie Toy and travel photos from me.
It's out now and I hope to come to your neck of the woods to do a signing or cooking class.

You can order a copy from me (click on the button below) or through Amazon (click on the picture above):

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Our company, Bright Red Rocket, debuted our latest two DVDs:
"Focus: The Collected Filmstrips of Brian Dewan" and "The Wonderful World of Kittens."

The filmstrip DVD is a work of art! A collection of hand-painted, handmade and wonderfully narrated works by the talented Brian Dewan. The kitten DVD is just that - 45 minutes of unadulterated kittens being cute and hanging out to a fantastically funkadelic score by Brian.

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I've added some new items to my crafty site supercutefactory.com, including these fun Scrabble earrings.

They're only $15 a pair and you get to choose any two letters you'd like!

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My travel guide, Frommer's South Korea, is now available.

It was probably the most difficult project I've done so far in my life but so worth it to be able to share with you all the wonderful parts of my home country. You can order it from Amazon.com here.

You can also listen to a podcast I did for Frommers.com here.

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I've been obsessed with miniature Japanese food for awhile and now
I can share my love with you with my new site SuperCuteFactory.com!

You can get earrings made to look like sushi, donuts and more. So much fun!

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Tim and I were at Supermarket for our company Bright Red Rocket on Saturday, December 15th @ Meltdown Comics.

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Our little paintings were at Weeneez/Red Dot gallery downtown (on the SE corner of Spring and Fifth)!

square paintings

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I was one of 200 artists in an exhibit sponsored by the Haus Gallery to raise money for the people of Darfur.
The exhibit successfully raised over $10,000 (enough to feed more than 60,000 children!).

The HausGuest Exhibit ran from February 24th - March 31th, 2007
@ The Haus Gallery at the Brewery Project and online .

The opening reception was a fabulous bash! Thank you for attending.

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