Young Nan Park Sohn '16

Full-Time Faculty / Master of Arts in Teaching; Coordinator / Undergraduate Art Education BFA/MAT

Nan Park is a teacher, artist, teacher of teachers, maker of artful and ephemeral things, collector, wanderer, and wonderer. In over 30 years as an art educator, she has combined making practices, communities of practice, nature, and ritual as grounding forces for slowing down, noticing with intention, finding resilience, and contemplating new pathways forward. Her pedagogical work with undergraduate and graduate students in preservice art education follows an arc from self-oriented to world-responsive. This arc, shaped by moments of attention and connection, is embedded in course frameworks intended to amplify inner work, sustainability, reciprocity, and collective action. She believes making—as a dynamic and socially situated process of inquiry—invokes material and relational ways of knowing and unknowing, where both emerge in tandem. She embeds structures for encouraging students to cultivate ways of attending and connecting in their own making and teaching practices. Nan is faculty in the Master of Arts in Teaching program and also serves as the Coordinator of Undergraduate Art Education for the dual-degree BFA/MAT program. She earned an MA in Art Education from 足球游戏_中国足彩网¥体育资讯, an MS in Art Education from Syracuse University, and a BA in Fine Arts from Haverford College. She is currently a doctoral student in the Curriculum and Instruction EdD program at Indiana University Bloomington. She has been recognized with the 2020 NAEA Eastern Region Higher Education Art Educator Award, the 2017 NAEA Art Educator of the Year Award for Maryland, and the 2014 足球游戏_中国足彩网¥体育资讯 Trustee Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. She regularly presents at state and national conferences and is active in advocacy efforts (re)shaping licensure pathways for teaching art in Maryland. Nan believes making crosses into liminal spaces, a permeable threshold into multimodal ways of knowing: embodied, affective, intuitive. Making is thus not only a practice but a way of being that grounds her teaching and research. Her research interests include contemplative practices in the higher education classroom and making as relational practice. Complementing this, her studio practice revolves around attunement to seasonal and ephemeral rhythms, where ritual and contemplation serve as frameworks for making.

Portfolio Pieces

Spaciousness & Constraint 81 panels, 4"x4" each Sumi ink, watercolor, gouache, rice paper These pieces explore dualities such as absence and presence, reveal and conceal, blur and coalesce, rising and grounded. Works made in sequence, when put together, illuminate something previously unknown. + Enlarge
Rhizomes & Palimpsests Mixed-media collage Through the expressive metaphors of rhizomes (non-hierarchical points of connection) and palimpsests (relationships that show traces through multiple layers), each piece in this series examines where and how connections manifest through relational engagements with the human and more-than-human world. + Enlarge

Spaciousness & Constraint

These pieces explore dualities such as absence and presence, reveal and conceal, blur and coalesce, rising and grounded. Works made in sequence, when put together, illuminate something previously unknown.

Artist
Young Nan Park Sohn
Dimensions
81 panels, 4"x4" each

Rhizomes & Palimpsests

Through the expressive metaphors of rhizomes (non-hierarchical points of connection) and palimpsests (relationships that show traces through multiple layers), each piece in this series examines where and how connections manifest through relational engagements with the human and more-than-human world.

Artist
Young Nan Park Sohn
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