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 theChildhood Art Speaker Series and Childhood Art: A CSCA Podcast. She is the Southeastern Director of the Higher Education Division (2023-2025) and the President-Elect of the Early Childhood Art Education Interest Group (2026-2028) 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 includes explorations of digital technologies in secondary art education, post-qualitative inquiry, and 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 forChildhood Art: An International Journal of Research, reviewer for Art EducationandVisual Arts Research, and guest reviewer for other journals.

Prior to joining 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 from The Pennsylvania State University as a Fulbright Foreign Student Scholar, and received her BFA in Painting from Ewha Womans 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