Department of Art

Stephen Kroninger

Visiting Artist Lecture

Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 11:00 am

Visual & Performing Arts Center
WCSU, Westside Campus

Stephen Kroninger is an award-winning illustrator and photo-collage artist, based in New York City. His work has appeared in major U.S. and international publications, and he is also the author/illustrator of three award-winning children’s books. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Stevan J. Dohanas Award from the Society of Illustrators.
Stephen has also worked in animation. A short film produced for Nickelodeon was selected for the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Another, for Chris Rock, was a festival award-winner, and he also created animation for an exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Kroninger’s work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Library of Congress, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. It has been exhibited in NYC at the Society of Illustrators and most notably in a solo exhibition at MoMA in 1992.

Kroninger has participated in MoMA’s Family Education program and has lectured in MoMA’s Conversation with Contemporary Artist series. He has been active in the metropolitan area in a wide range of education programs, from workshops in elementary schools to the Art Directors Club’s program for high school students. He has also worked with Scholastic’s program, serving as a judge and keynote speaker for their National Student Art & Writing Awards. He currently teaches at NYC's Parsons School of Design

https://www.stephenkroninger.net/