I am drawn to art that explores what it means to be human, in a body, on this earth. I like to engage in projects that counteract the disembodied, violent cultures we live in.
Kelly (she/they) is an arts worker, curator, and writer living and working in Houston, Texas*. Her projects expand on the interconnected concepts of embodiment, power dynamics, language, environment, and spirituality, taking varied forms including events, exhibitions, zines, and collages.
Kelly is the Director of Public Programs at the Rothko Chapel, a sacred art space dedicated to community engagement through contemplation and action at the intersections of art, spirituality, and social justice. Their writings have been featured in exhibition catalogs including the Station Museum’s Cassils: Solutions, and reviews in ART PAPERS and Kolaj Magazine, among others.
She earned an MFA in Curatorial Practice from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, and a BA in Art History from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. Kelly is a board member for Houston’s Center for the Healing of Racism and they were a Fellow in the 2022 New Leaders Council (NLC) Houston cohort.
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*Houston is a colonized area on the stolen lands of the Karankawa, Carrizo Comecrudo, Sana, Atakapa Ishak, Coahuiltecan, and Akokisa, and Mexican peoples. The city of Houston and the state of Texas gained money and power by trafficking enslaved Africans to process cotton and by extracting oil from the Earth to fuel the auto and plastics industries.