Youmee Lee, a Korean American artist, creates a whimsical, painterly body of work leading viewers to fantastical environments embedded with Asian elements and sign language poetry. Youmee has been exploring Asian folklore/mythology and American Sign Language poetry to evoke poetic imagination. She has been drawing since she was little, and visual art contributed to her formative years. She recently created children’s books partially based on her childhood memories and inspired by Asian folklore and American Sign Language (ASL). The books will be released in the fall by GU Press. She wishes to draw untold stories and preserve artistic elements of ASL. She earned an MFA in Film and Animation from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MA in Deaf Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a certified Teacher of the Deaf in New York, teaching deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Brooklyn, NY.