Christine Lee draws from a variety of investigation methods involving intuitive direct-hand manipulation, traditional craft processes, and computer-aided technology. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Furniture Design/Woodworking from San Diego State University and a Bachelor of Science in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a Senior Sustainability Scholar of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University where she also recently taught in the School of Art of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. 

Having a strong inclination to salvage and deep appreciation for the environment, Christine works with a variety of materials ranging from fiber-based, natural, non-toxic, and sustainable, to materials that are mundane, surplus, or have been used/disregarded. She attributes her responsiveness to them to earlier training in the craft-based disciplines of woodworking and studio art furniture, and later in hand-weaving. 

Through the residency, Christine will draw from the experience to explore the physical shapes and functional/practical uses of the Bag as an object, combining metaphors, meanings and materials for a new series.

The Fall 2024 Tijuana Residency is a community initiative of World Design Capital San Diego-Tijuana 2024.