Based in Providence, RI, Kelly received her MFA in 3D Fine Arts from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her BA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. She has been teaching in the Greater Boston area since 2012. She served as faculty, Registrar, PR Coordinator and Artistic Coordinator at the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts in Jamaica Plain between 2011-2017.
Kelly’s work addresses themes of connection: human to human, generation to generation, human to environment. Her early background is in fine craft, and she loves to explore the physical dialog that happens while working with materials, giving them the agency to respond to manipulation and codetermine the final form.
