"WE MAKE THE ROAD BY WALKING"
an exhibition by artists Sama Alshaibi and Beth Krensky
Exhibition at Dinnerware Artspace, Tucson, Arizona
April 5th - April 26th 2008 (opening reception on April 5th 7-9pm)
Sponsored by "Conversations Across Religious Traditions"
 Office of the President at the University of Arizona

Previously exhibited at the Mizel Museum, Denver, Colorado
October 11, 2007 - January 24, 2008
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Beth Krensky
Born: 1965, New York City, NY

 
 

Beth Krensky is an Assistant Professor of Art Education and the Area Head of Art Teaching at the University of Utah. She is an artist, activist and educator. She received her formal art training from the Boston Museum School. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States and internationally. She is a founding member of the international artist collective, the Artnauts. Her work is intended to provoke reflection about what is happening in our world as well as to create a vision of what is possible.

She is also a scholar in the area of youth-created art and social change. She received a master’s degree with a focus on critical pedagogy and art education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

CV Highlights

Education:
Ph.D., The University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002
Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991
B.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 1988

Selected Exhibitions:
Gallery of the School of Fine Arts, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, China, 2007
Rhys Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007, 2006
Academia de San Carlos Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, 2007
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Escuela de Artes, Medellin, Colombia, 2007
Ha’Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2007
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2006, 2004
Al Kahf Gallery, The International Center of Bethlehem, Palestine, 2006, 2004
Khalil Al Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine, 2006
Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2006
Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, Utah, 2006, 2005
Salt Lake City Arts Council Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005
Oventic Caracol, Chiapas, Mexico, 2005
Salon de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City, Mexico, 2004
Governor’s Palace, Tlaxcala, Mexico, 2004
Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, Colorado, 2004
Sangre de Christo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado, 2004, 2003
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, 2003
Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru, 2003
Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Taxco, Mexico, 2003
Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, Colorado, 2003

Selected Awards:
Marquis Who’s Who in American Education, 8th Edition, 2007-2008
AcademicKeys Who’s Who in Fine Arts Higher Education, 2007

University Research Committee, Faculty Fellow, University of Utah, 2007
College of Fine Arts Dean’s Creative Research Award, University of Utah, 2007, 2005
Fine Arts Faculty Scholar, College of Fine Arts, University of Utah, 2006
Puffin Foundation, Artist Support Grant, 2004
Colorado Council on the Arts, Project Grant, 2001
Arts and Humanities Assembly of Boulder, Artist Grant, 2001, 1999
President’s Fund for the Humanities Grant, 1995

Selected Publications:
The Practitioner’s Guide to Community-Based Art Education: Community Art in Theory and Practice, with S. Steffen (AltaMira Press: MD, 2008)
Critic’s Choice (The Denver Post, May 28, 2006)
Triumph of Our Communities: Four Decades of Chicana/o Art (The Bilingual Press: AZ, 2005)
Internacional: Obra de Beth Krensky (Difusión de la academia y la cultura, 1:11, Mexico City, Mexico)
Rites in the Making: A Selection of Contemporary Art: Beth Krensky, (Chicago Art Journal, Volume 11, Chicago, IL)