Dominic Pangborn
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Dominic Pangborn is a Korean-American artist and graphic designer.
Dominic Pangborn was born in Chungcheong Province, Korea, in 1952 during the Korean War.[1]
Since childhood, Pangborn traveled a road rarely crossed and from that he acquired an exceptional view of life at a young age. Pangborn never met his father, an American serviceman. He lived with his mother, a Korean villager, for the majority of his childhood. At the age of 10, Pangborn’s mother was able to send him to the United States with the support and assistance of an American Catholic missionary, Fr. Vincent Hoffman, in the hope that he would have an easier and more prosperous life not obtainable for a multiethnic Korean at that time.[2] In America, Dominic was adopted by Fr. Hoffman's sister and her husband, Mary and Spencer Pangborn. He spent his adolescence gutsily acclimating to his new country and bonding with his American family including 11 siblings, 4 uncles, 4 aunts, and 40 cousins in Jackson, Michigan.[3] He attended Lumen Christi High School.[4]
His story is one of 26 included in the book “After the Morning Calm: Reflections of Korean Adoptees.”[5]
Art education
Pangborn graduated from Lumen Christi High School, in Jackson, Mich., then at his father’s suggestion, decided to pursue an education in art.
He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where he majored in graphic design. He attended the Syracuse University Illustrators Workshop and served later as a professor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Detroit’s Marygrove College.
