Personal Biography:

Joanne Kim is the Director of Photography Education and New Media at Venice Arts. She is a photographic artist who has been working with photography and digital media for the past 7 years in various teaching and creative capacities.

Joanne was Adjunct Faculty in Photography at Evergreen State College, where she also managed the photography lab and darkroom. She also taught community–based photography classes in the Northwest for three years. Her digital media job experience includes work as a web designer for an independent record company and working with companies on digital asset management systems.

Joanne has had numerous shows of her work at galleries in the Northwest and has exhibited in a group show in Los Angeles, where she moved in the Fall of 2005. She recently traveled to Mozaambique with Venice Arts to work on The House is Small but the Welcome is Big project, where she taught photography to youth who have been orphaned by AIDS and to youth activists working with UNICEF.

Currently, she’s working on a documentary project with youth living in the Garment District of Downtown Los Angeles teaching them to tell their stories through photography and digital media.

Goals:

Goals for the Fellowship

Through bringing technology-based arts classes to low-income youth, I have seen the lack of technology that is available to low-income communities, and I would like to learn methods and ways of bringing more digital technology access to them. I hope to gain knowledge, connections, and advocacy skills to learn ways of bridging the digital divide.