Hayon Park

Hayon Park, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Art Education at George Mason University. She is the author of Rancière and Emancipatory Art Pedagogies: The Politics of Childhood Art (2023) and co-editor of the anthology Visual Arts with Young Children: Practices, Pedagogies, and Learning (2021). She currently serves as an Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Childhood Art, where she co-hosts the Childhood Art Speaker Series and Childhood Art: A CSCA Podcast. She is the Southeastern Director of the Higher Education Division (2023-2025) and incoming President of the Early Childhood Art Education Interest Group (2025-2027) at the National Art Education Association (NAEA).

Informed by critical, poststructuralist, and post-developmental approaches, Dr. Park’s research and teaching focus on the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of childhood art and culture. Her recent work also include explorations of digital technologies in secondary art education, post-qualitative inquiry, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in global childhoods. Her research has appeared in national and international peer-reviewed journals, including Studies in Art Education, Qualitative Inquiry, Art Education, and Visual Arts Research, as well as in other edited volumes at the intersection of visual arts education and early childhood studies. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Education & the Arts, editor for Childhood Art: An International Journal of Research, reviewer for Art Education and Visual Arts Research, and guest reviewer for other journals.

Prior to joining the faculty at Mason, Dr. Park held faculty appointments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Dayton. She earned her PhD and MS in Art Education at The Pennsylvania State University and a BFA in Painting from Ewha Woman’s University (South Korea).

Degrees:

• PhD, Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University
• MS, Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University
• BFA, Painting, Ewha Woman’s University (Seoul, South Korea)

Specialist Areas:

• Art Teaching and Learning
• Early Childhood Art Education
• Research in Art Education