When Joyce Kim immigrated to Georgia from Korea in the third grade, she couldn’t yet speak English, but she could paint and draw. Art, she says, was a familiar language in an unfamiliar place. On this episode of WABE Arts, Sherri Daye Scott talks with Kim about the body of work that earned her a Gold Medal Portfolio Award from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards,  the organization’s highest honor, awarded to just 16 students nationwide. Kim discusses her mixed-media portfolio, ‘Fear of the Unknown and the Uncontrollable Forces,’ the psychological theory behind one of its signature pieces, and what she hopes other young artists take from her work. Kim graduates from Johns Creek High School in Alpharetta this month and will study psychology and visual arts at Yale University in the fall. 🎨 

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