Artist Talk: Elizabeth Kelly, Visiting Assistant Professor of Design and Photography, Wed. Feb 8, 4:45 p.m.

Elizabeth Kelly is a photographer and art educator based in Philadelphia, PA. Working primarily in traditional and alternative process photographic techniques. Her current work features large cyanotype prints on a variety of fabrics, audio visual work, archival photographic manipulation using mordançage, wet and dry plate photography on tin and glass, traditional photo workshops and collaborative photo essays. She is interested in the ethics of portraiture and expanding access to traditional photo education. Focusing on addressing the importance of art education on early expression and sense of self in children who live in communities with limited access to the arts. Kelly has been working to build a comprehensive traveling traditional photographic studio and workspace so she can expand her educational practice beyond the walls of the darkroom.

Kelly’s work addresses the human experience and the individuality of the communities and people in her photographs. Though her work may initially seem to cover many different subject matters ranging from the duality of self to the building of Pier no. 9 in Philadelphia, each project offers a look into a community, living or dead, through their images and their narrative history. Each of her bodies of work include or are fully composed of photographic prints and images made using traditional film photography or 19th century and contemporary alternative process image making techniques while addressing themes that have an impact on the contemporary art conversation.

Artist's website: https://www.elizabethrosekelly.com