"Artistic fulfillment can come from almost anywhere. For visual artist Lucy Kim, the local public library filled the gap between her artistic inspiration and concrete learning.
“I was surrounded by art growing up, but never in a way where I saw it as a viable career,” remembered Kim, whose exhibit “Mutant Optics” shows currently at Seattle’s Henry Art Gallery. “My mom took oil painting lessons as a hobby, and I would sometimes sit with her and draw. But I didn’t think much of it. It was just a part of my life. When I was a sophomore in high school, something changed and I started to take it very seriously."
