Education

1990 Ringling College of Art and Design, BFA
2005 University of South Florida, Graduate Program
2007 University of South Florida, M.Ed.

Courses Taught

Media Aesthetics and Creativity
Digital Media and Design for Communication
Digital Foundations for Communication

Career Specialties

Kerstin Upmeyer’s teaching and academic interests center on creative digital media, visual storytelling and strategic design. She is especially interested in how students learn to use emerging tools, including artificial intelligence, to create ethical, accessible and audience-centered communication across visual, digital and multimedia platforms.

Professional and Community Activities

Upmeyer has more than 28 years of experience teaching creative digital media, visual communication, graphic and web design, multimedia production and portfolio development in higher education and other educational settings. Her professional work has included curriculum development and program leadership in graphic design and multimedia, teaching at the University of Tampa and developing an award-winning student media and design program that emphasized visual storytelling, branding, editorial decision-making and publication production. She has also worked professionally in illustration, branding, layout and visual communication and has published design tutorials and feature articles for an international design magazine.

Honors and Awards

2022, 2023 Silver Award, Florida Scholastic Press Association, Wildlife Yearbook
2018-2023 Walsworth Gallery of Excellence, Wildlife Yearbook