About

Kristine Thoreson is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator born and raised in Mohkinstsis (MOH-kin-stiss) / Calgary. She is a fourth generation Canadian settler with Scandinavian and Slovak heritage.

Her creative and academic works incorporate postcolonial and eco-critical frameworks within visual cultural studies, creative research practice, and secondary / post-secondary teaching and learning contexts.

Kristine holds a BFA from AUARTS as well as a BEd, MFA and PhD from the University of Calgary. She is a certified k-12 teacher in Alberta with specialties in Art, Photography and Social Studies.

Recent projects have taken her to the Columbia Ice Fields in Alberta; the East Kootenay region of BC; the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland & Labrador; and to Ilulissat in Kalaallit / Western Greenland. Kristine's research and selected artworks have been presented locally and internationally including at the University of Calgary, Brock University, MPLS Photo Center (USA), on BBC TV in the UK, and at UHI Shetland Islands (UK).