Kelly Hrenko, PhD

SHE | HER | HERS

Professor of Art Education
Associate Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

207-780-5364

kelly.hrenko@maine.edu

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Robie-Andrews Hall, Room 10, Gorham

228 Deering Ave., Portland

Education

PhD Art Education, University of Minnesota
BFA Art Education, Southern Illinois University

Research Interests

Culture Based Arts
American Indian Arts Curricula
Arts Integration and Multimodal Arts Education

Department of Art College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Dr. Hrenko’s current scholarship is within the field of integrated arts and multimodal creative literacies. She uses her position as a teacher educator in the visual arts as a place where several intersections occur; between art and culture, community and school; and interdisciplinary education. She comes from the Midwest where she worked in public and Native American BIA schools, assisting k-12 teachers as they work to integrate the visual arts and Native cultures across curricula.

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Selected Publications

Hrenko, K. & Paul, M. (Spring 2017). Decolonizing vacationland. In Staikidis and Ballengee-Morris (Eds.),Transforming Our Practices: American Indian Art, Pedagogies, and Philosophies. Reston, VA: NAEA Press.

Hrenko, K. & Dalton, J. (2016). Indigenous Communities + ELL Students + Pre-Service Teacher Education = 3 Ways of Enacting Change through Place Based Education. The International Journal of Arts Education. The Arts and Society Press.

Hrenko, K. (2014) The intersection of Indigenous cultures, visual arts and creative writing. Journal of the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum, 16 (1&2) 9-20.

Hrenko, K., & Stairs, A. (2012). Creative literacy: A new space for pedagogical understanding. [Special issue on Writing Across the Secondary School Curriculum] Across the Disciplines, 9(3). Retrieved January 17, 2013, from http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/second_educ/hrenko_stairs.cfm

Bequette, J., & Hrenko, K. (2010). Culture-based arts education. In Jon Reyhner, Willard Sakiestewa Gilbert, &Louise Lockard (Eds.), Honoring our heritage: Culturally appropriate approaches to teaching indigenous students. Flagstaff, AZ: Northern Arizona University Press.