Chinese-American artist Evelyn Wong is an interdisciplinary artist who works across a variety of media, including drawing, painting, embroidery, book arts, and installation, to explore themes of history, trauma, culture, race, and gender through the lens of personal narratives and her Asian American heritage. She has recently exhibited work at the NAU Art Museum in Flagstaff, Arizona, the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine, and the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, California. Some of her recent books can be found in the Special Collections of the Joanne Waxman Library.
Wong received her BFA from the University of South Carolina and MFA from Maine College of Art. In 2019, she was awarded the Professional Development and Creative Entrepreneurship Grant at Maine College of Art to launch Fireball Bookbindery, where she currently crafts hand-bound journals and notebooks inspired by Asian traditions in materials, designs, and book-bindings.