Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
While attending the California Academy of the Arts, San Francisco-based painter and muralist Chelsea Ryoko Wong worked a summer job right here at the de Young Museum store! Years later, her vibrant painting, "Mint Tea in the Sauna During Sunset" now hangs in our galleries.
In this episode, Wong takes us inside her Mission District studio to share how her time in the Bay Area, printmaking, travels, and childhood memories come together in her joyful and meticulously layered figures and forms.
While attending the California Academy of the Arts, San Francisco-based painter and muralist Chelsea Ryoko Wong worked a summer job right here at the de Young Museum store! Years later, her vibrant painting, "Mint Tea in the Sauna During Sunset" now hangs in our galleries.
In this episode, Wong takes us inside her Mission District studio to share how her time in the Bay Area, printmaking, travels, and childhood memories come together in her joyful and meticulously layered figures and forms.
