Artist Statement

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Rebecca Kelly draws upon her experience as an actor and teacher, as well as a storyteller, to create her work as a visual artist.

Her experience in the theater is reflected in dramatic choices of color or at times, lack of color. Rebecca’s storytelling is apparent in her use of words within her work. Words, phrases and secret codes are incorporated in her sculptures and artists books. Themes are hidden allowing the viewers to create their own response to the work.

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Education

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Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
MA

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Bibliography

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2024
Blainesworld Webcast Interview with Rebecca Kelly

2021
"Rebecca Kelly: The Artist as Healer," Art for Real People

2011
Dube, Ilene, "Raw Beauty: The Art of Capturing the Female Spirit"

2010
Dube, Ilene, “Stories about Books,” TimeOFF, Princeton Packet

2007
Freeman, Allison, "Making art from found objects," New Jersey Star Ledger

2006
"4 Perspectives: A Book Arts Exhibit", Dog Eared Magazine

2006 Catalogue, National Collage Society

Donahue, Victoria, "Collage: An enigmatic medium,” Philadelphia Inquirer

Purcell, Janet, " Artists tell their story through visual vocabulary" Trenton Times, NJ

2004
Kalonick, Julian, "The Things They Carry," TimeOFF, Princeton Packet

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Professional Experience

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2024

Teaching Artist at The Creative Center, New York, New York

Teaching Artist at Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA

Teaching Artist at The Banana Factory in Bethlehem, PA

2000 - present
Storyteller and Teaching Book Artist; Young Audiences of New Jersey and Eastern PA

2011 - 2012
Studio Teacher at Horace Mann School, Nursery Division, New York, NY

Exhibitions

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2024
Bodies of Knowledge: multi-site art exhibition that explores the many roles that the human body takes in shaping and creating knowledge. Billboard located on the South Greenway, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA

Compendium of Small Works, Honorable Mention, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA

Books as Life, Philadelphia Center for the Book, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2023
Illustrated Accordion, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI

2022
(Re)bound: The Altered Book, South Haven Center for the Arts, South Haven, MI

Member Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

Phillips Mill 93rd Annual Juried Exhibition, New Hope, PA

2020
Jacob's Ladder: Dedicated to Jacob Blake, SHUVU Visionary Art Magazine Lab/Shul

These Times, Philadelphia Center for the Book, Philadelphia, PA

2011
Philadelphia Center for the Book: Bodies of Text

2010
9th International Toy Theater Festival, Great Small Works, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY

2009
Found and Bound: Philadelphia Museum of Art Library, Perelman Building,
Philadelphia, PA

2008
National Collage Society Annual Exhibition, Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA

8th International Toy Theater Festival, Great Small Works, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY

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Curated Exhibitions

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2011
raw beauty: An exhibition of sculpture, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ

2010
Off the Page: Artists Books and Limited Editions, Stuart Country Day School, Princeton, NJ

2009 - 2011
transFORMation: Making art from recycled and reused materials, Artmobile traveling exhibit and Hicks Gallery of Art, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA