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Yoonshin Park

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Yoonshin Park is a multimedia artist, curator, and educator working with sculptural papers, artist books, and installations. She received her M.A. and M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Park's practice is deeply rooted in her fascination with the comprehensive process of papermaking and bookbinding, allowing her to create cohesive objects that seamlessly integrate diverse elements.


Park draws inspiration from her journey as a foreign transplant from Seoul, Korea, using her experiences to explore the concept of space and its profound influence on shaping individual identity.


Park is a 2023-24 HATCH resident at Chicago Artists Coalition and an alumna of the Center Program at Hyde Park Art Center. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and reviewed by TimeOut Chicago and Sculpture Magazine. Park is represented by the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago.

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This studio course focuses on themes, practices, contexts, and questions undertaken by contemporary artists and designers. Research Studio I is a course that asks students to begin to develop and connect their own work and ideas with a diverse range of artists, designers, and communities. This course engages with cultural institutions including: museums, galleries, libraries and archives as resources of critical engagement.

Students will undertake various types of research activities: a) collecting and classification, b) mapping and diagramming, c) systems of measurement, d) social interaction, e) information search systems, f) recording and representation, and g) drawing and other notational systems.


Assignments in this course are faculty directed, open-media, interdisciplinary and idea based. The projects are designed to help students recognize their work habits, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Students will experience a wide range of research methods and making strategies. Critique as an evaluative process used in art and design schools, is a focus in this course. Various methods and models of critique are used in order to give students the tools to discuss their own work and the work of others.

Class Number

1319

Credits

3