09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
31 artists for 31 visions of Korean American experience
'Soaring (Narsha),' a showcase for local Korean American artists, takes its title from a 1447 epic poem. It was the first literary work composed in Hangul, the Korean phonetic writing system introduced a mere four years before. The reference to the nearly 600-year-old opus might suggest that 'Soaring' ('Narsha' in archaic Korean) is rooted deeply in tradition. But this American University Museum exhibition, which marks the 50th anniversary of the Han-Mee Artists Association of Greater Washington, derives as much from the United States ('Meeguk') as Korea ('Hanguk').
