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.
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
Professional Experience
2023
Teaching Artist at The Creative Center, New York, New York
Teaching Artist at Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton NJ
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
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
Exhibitions Curated
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
