- Date Of Death: November 28, 2016
- State: New Mexico
Jack Kroehnke, the first public affairs officer at NASA’s White Sands, NM, Test Facility, and later one of 42 artists in a Smithsonian Institution exhibit of space exploration art, died Monday, November 28, 2016 at his home in Albuquerque. He was 85.
Kroehnke, born in Chicago February 9, 1931, studied art under muralist Otto Hake at the Chicago Institute of Applied Art and with painter-lithographer Elmer Schooley at New Mexico Highlands University.
