Photo Credit: Topher Mueller @topher.fotos

Originally from Chicago, Kelly moved to Jackson, MS after receiving her MFA at Northern Illinois University and on to Baton Rouge, LA only two weeks before Katrina. She is currently a member of Baton Rouge Gallery, LA, a recent member of The Front in New Orleans, and has also exhibited with New Context/Kasia Kay Gallery in Chicago, in Scope Miami and New York. Her work has been published in New American Paintings and Studio Visit Magazine.  Outside of teaching art at Lusher Charter School, she has attended residencies at Hambidge, GA; Stone House, CA; Wilson College, PA; Philadelphia Art Hotel, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, CA; and a Surdna Fellowship in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest.