Suki Kwon earned a university degree in psychology in her native Korea, but a life-changing backpacking trip through Europe in 1997 convinced her to change her path and pursue a career as an artist. Twelve years—and an MFA degree in design from the University of Iowa—later, she’s an assistant professor in design in the Visual Arts department at the University of Dayton. A resident of Springboro, Kwon works in many media, but one of her special interests is jogakbo, a style of traditional Korean patchwork quilting that uses hundreds of small pieces of fabric. Kwon uses natural materials to dye the scraps of material in the traditional Korean manner and then stitches them together into intricate and visually arresting works of textile art. In addition to her art and university responsibilities, Kwon also works with Korean women in the area around Springboro, teaching them the art of jogakbo.