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Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University
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George M. Kren, Margo Kren (painting professor, Kansas State University), in back of Kren home,…
Margo Kren
George M. Kren, Margo Kren (painting professor, Kansas State University), in back of Kren home,…
George M. Kren, Margo Kren (painting professor, Kansas State University), in back of Kren home, Bertrand Street, Manhattan, Kansas, Spring 1982, Spring 1982, printed 2011, inkjet print on paper, 16 x 16 in., Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Margo Kren, 2017.196

Margo Kren

United States, born 1939
Active PlaceManhattan, Kansas, United States, North America
Biography• Kren has spent most of her life in the Midwest. She began teaching art at Kansas State University in 1971, retiring in 2003. She was the first woman in the department to be promoted to full professor, in 1995.

• Kren has visited Greece, Spain, India, and China, creating bodies of work inspired by her experiences in these countries.

• The artist earned her bachelor of fine arts degree in 1966 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and master of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa in Iowa City in 1979.

• She was awarded the Governor’s Art Award of Kansas in 1989 and the Kansas Arts Commission, Artist Fellowship Award in 2000.
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