Kelly Frankenberg’s work includes paintings, drawings, murals, and installations that explore themes of nature, identity, cultural symbols, and love.

Fragments Reimagined serves as a call to end gun violence in our communities, harnessing the transformative power of art to provoke dialogue, foster healing, and advocate for change.

Plein air painting in 90 minutes on Lake Superior

acrylic painting of a palm tree and the ocean

giraffe and a rainbow in South Africa

a horse in the Austrian Dolomites in the fog

lizard on top of table mountain looking down on Capetown

a bit abstract painting of a road in South Africa

Acrylic painting of High Falls in Grand Portage, Minnesota

Painting en plein air of the coast of Lake Superior in Grand Marais

3rd Ave bridge in Minneapolis

Brooklyn Bridge in New York City

road into Minneapolis with the skyscrapers and the old pedestrian bridge with people crossing

The Eiffel Tower at night with a christmas market

Bethesda fountain in Central Park in New York City

sculpture made of trash and recycled materials

Birds on the beach in Florida

balconies in Barcelona, Spain

Seagull flying in the sky

blue frog in watercolor and stipling

watercolor green frog on coneflower with stipling

Little girl looking at the sunset behind a mound of rocks

inside view of a house with a table in a yellowish tone and you can see the beautiful view outside the window of California

two skulls kissing in an x-ray

Castle in Northern Italy in the mountains of Tirol

Lilacs and a blue sky

rocks in bright aqua blue lake tahoe

Tahoe National Forest with trees and lake

Grand Marais rocks on Lake Superior

View of Dorf Tirol in Italy

yellow shades and shadows of light with a tree and lake and some ducks

mountains in Canada

Pine tree with a large rock in front and shadows

night nocturne painting in the dark winter through the pine trees and the light coming from inside a house reflecting on the snow

This is one of three parts of the World Corridor Mural Project for Minnetonka High School I helped work on when I was a student there.

These are murals I was commissioned to create for interaction at Minnesota's Italian Festival. There is the Birth of Venus, Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Colosseum, a gondola ride, a slice of pizza and an opera singer.

This is a barrel I painted and donated for an auction that benefitted children's health, research, and care at M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital

This is the Mississippi River Pearl, a large sculpture created by 10 artists, a mayor and a scientist. We picked up trash along the Mississippi River for 2 hours and created this interactive educational sculpture. With the grant from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, we were able to learn about what the plastics do to the water that is 80 percent of Minneapolis' drinking water. The sculpture has been used for educational workshops at the Mill City Museum, through Guthrie Education, and MWMO. See more about it with the link.

This is a welcome door I did for the City of Eagan for the Harvest Festival. It contains many 3D elements and has an interactive hole to take a photo.

This is a sculpture created for a contest for the Saint Paul Saints, to which I won the grand prize. It is titled, Uplift, Dream, Create, Inspire. It is made with silicon, nails, string, and wood.

This is the mural I was commissioned to paint at the Islamic Center of MN and created with a student doing the Islamic caligraphy.

This was taken from my butterfly wings made out of recycled bottle caps and made into a wrap around for an electrical for the city of Crystal, MN. Promoting reuse and recycle was the goal.

This is the mural I was commissioned to paint at Salut Salt and Spa in Cumberland, WI.

This is a painted electrical box for Gramercy Park Cooperative in Eagan. 1568 Quarry Rd.

5 years of painting pianos for Minneapolis' Pianos on Parade

These are some of the barriers my team and I managed and created for the City of Burnsville for Nicollet Commons Park.

This is an installation made of recycled bottle caps that was originally a temporary piece for the Mill City Museum during Stone Arch Festival and the summer of 2024. Currently installed at the Flux Arts Building in NE Minneapolis, you can get your photo with these wings.