Kelly Frankenberg (She/Her)
Skills/Mediums: Art Teacher, Assemblage/Found Objects, Drawing, Filmmaker, Illustration-Graphic Design, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Musician/Songwriter, Painting, Photography, Poetry, Social Justice Themes, Teacher, Woodworking, Writing
Member of ACW since: December 1, 2021
Biography
Kelly Frankenberg is an illustrator, writer, painter, photographer. She holds a MFA in creative writing from the University of New Orleans, and a BFA in Illustration from MCAD. She’s taught Art and Writing through Community Ed, Herzing University, and the former Minneapolis Media Institute and other teaching programs.
She’s done work for the Minnesota Governor’s residence Council, Minneapolis's Children's Theater, Fox National News, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and various other clients. She’s performed live painting at the National Architecture Convention, Macy’s, Mall of America, and has murals around Minnesota including commissions by the City of Burnsville, Islamic Center of Minnesota, Minneapolis Pianos on Parade, and her work is on doors, windows, mailboxes, chairs, and electrical boxes.
Kelly has a story in an anthology commissioned by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, “Queer Voices," an excerpt in Jane Seymour’s book, “The Road Ahead: Inspirational Stories of Open Hearts and Open Minds,” and has a self-published a memoir, “Diary of a Gay, Pregnant Bride.”
She wrote a screenplay and filmed the feature film with things inside her house.
Traveling to 50 states and over 50 countries, she uses her travel photography to paint realistic and abstract landscapes.
Currently serving as assistant director of ACW, she exhibits her work in galleries and festivals and looks for more ways to collaborate and change the world with art.
www.kellyfrankenberg.com