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Melissa Hronkin
Melissa Hronkin started teaching in K-12 Art in the UP of Michigan in January 2001, and has made her way across the Peninsula during the past 12 years….from Rudyard to Ontonagon, and now teaches Elementary art at Houghton Portage School District in Houghton, MI. She received her BFA at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, teaching endorsement at Northern Michigan University, and an MA in Art Education at The Ohio State University.
Melissa has been a re ... read moregional co-liaison for MAEA Region 16-18 for 12 years and served at the NAEA delegate in 2008-2009. She co-chaired the 2003 Fall Conference held in Sault Ste. Marie, and is currently co-chairing the 2013 Conference held on Mackinac Island. Melissa spearheaded the current UP Summer Professional Development Retreat held at Finlandia University’s International College of Art and Design. She has been know to instruct in the adjunct capacity regional Colleges and Universities, and teaches summer arts camp for youth and community art classes around the UP.
personal philosophy, statement about Art Education:
Creativity is not just about making artifacts such as a drawing, painting or sculpture; it is about moving people with an idea. This is a very exciting time to be involved in art education, and it is an honor and a privilege to work with my young students every day. They give me hope and remind me to stay present in the moment. The arts provide the vocabulary for meaning-making that is an essential aspect within the curriculum, and for making sense of our ever-changing world.
As an adolescent, I would go out with my camera and capture or define my reality through pictures. I still do this, and it is as much about the process: the slowing down, communing and noticing as it is about the pictures that result. It is my hope that through art education we can give students the tools that will help them to make sense of the world around them or at least create the narratives that will empower them to feel like they have a voice and a story to tell.
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