Aimee Lee is an artist who makes paper, writes, and advocates for Korean papermaking practices, and hand papermaking in general, as an Ohio Arts Council Heritage Fellow (BA, Oberlin College; MFA, Columbia College Chicago). Her Fulbright research led to the first hanji (Korean paper) studio in North America, an award-winning book, Hanji Unfurled, and a studio practice that includes jiseung, joomchi, paper textile, botanical paper, book art and natural dyeing techniques.

She travels the world to teach, exhibit, and serve as a resident artist while building and enhancing studios for Korean and East Asian papermaking. In her research journeys to Korea over the last 15 years, she learned to make hanji from direct harvest of paper mulberry trees (Broussonetia papyrifera) to traditional techniques of finishing, dyeing, cording, twining, texturing, and fusing hanji. She has studied with national and regional intangible cultural property holders in hanji making and bamboo screen making, and has used plant fibers for papermaking since 2003.