Career
She is best known for her work in the Boston, Massachusetts area, notably her bronze duck and ducklings in the Boston Public Garden, a recreation of the duck family in Robert McCloskey"s children"s classic Make Way for Ducklings. lieutenant is featured on the Boston Women"s Heritage Trail. In 1991, Barbara Bush gave a duplicate of this sculpture to Raisa Gorbachev as part of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks Treaty, and the work is displayed in Moscow"s Novodevichy Park.
Since 1966, she has lived in West Newton, Massachusetts.
In 2009, Nancy Schön was a participant at "Engaging Reflection," a Canadian seminar, which offered this profile of her:
Nancy prides herself in having work that is totally interactive. Her sculptures are available for people to touch, sit on, hug and interact with every day of the year, day or night.
Nancy married Donald Schön in 1952 and feels their work was very similar. Donald’s writing about “reflection in action” parallels the process of creating a sculpture as the professional reflects on their practice in the midst of practice in order to problem solve.
As Nancy creates a work of art, her research is a quest for knowledge and of understanding issues and of learning.
