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Brian Kelly, Professor

Brian Kelly working in the studio.

Brian Kelly received an M.F.A. in Printmaking at Louisiana State University, a B.F.A. in Printmaking from Northern Illinois University, and a Certificate in Waterless Lithography from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography. Professor Kelly serves as Head of the Printmaking program and is Coordinator of Marais Press at UL Lafayette. Kelly holds the Universities Coca Cola/BORSF Endowed Professorship and has been recognized as a University of Louisiana at Lafayette University Distinguished Professor (2010), a UL Lafayette Eminent Faculty for Leadership and Service (2017), has received the Dr. Ray P. Authement Excellence in Teaching Award (2019), and the UL Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.

Kelly has presented and conducted over 70 printmaking workshops and lectures concerning his printmaking research at universities and museums throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada and has held residences at GLATT/YMAGOS Atelier in San Paulo Brazil.

Kelly’s prints have been included in over 500 exhibitions throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, China, Ireland, Australia, Brazil, Poland, England, Scotland, and Slovenia.

His prints have been included in museum and university collections that include the United States Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, Southern Graphics International Printmaking Archives, the Block Museum, the Spencer Museum of Art, The Hilliard Art Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, Museum of Texas Tech University, Janet Turner Print Museum at the University of California Chico, the Northern Illinois University Art Museum, the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University, the University of Aberystwyth, Monash University, Print Australia Print Archives Australia, Limerick School of Art and Design, West Cork Arts Center in Skibbereen Co. Cork–Ireland, GLATT/YMAGOS Atelier, San Paulo, Brazil, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Colorado, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Alabama, Eastern New Mexico University, Murray State University, Purdue University, University of Mississippi, University of North Carolina at Pawbroke, The University of South Florida, University of South Dakota, University of North Dakota, University of Miami at Florida, University of Central Florida, Miami Public Library, Louisiana State University, Nicholls State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, McNeese State University, among others.

Email: briankelly@louisiana.edu