Keynote Address: Teach as if the World Depended on It
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Anne E. Cook
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Director, Martha Bradley Evans Center for Teaching Excellence
Keynote Address
Beth KrenskyDistinguished Professor, Area Head of Art Teaching, Art & Art History
9AM - 9:45
Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library
Beth Krensky Links to an external site. is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Utah. She received her formal art training from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. 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 also holds an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. in Educational Foundations from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her writing addresses community-based art education, youth activist art, and art for social change. Her co-authored book, Engaging Classrooms and Communities through Art, is used widely in the community-based art education field.
Krensky has been named the Utah Higher Education Art Educator of the Year and was selected as one of Utah’s 15 Most Influential Artists.