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Brian Kelly received an M.F.A. in Printmaking at Louisiana State Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, a B.F.A. in Printmaking from Northern Illinois Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, 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 Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø 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 São 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 Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of Arizona Museum of Art, Arizona State Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø Art Museum, Museum of Texas Tech Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, Janet Turner Print Museum at the Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of California Chico, the Northern Illinois Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø Art Museum, the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, the Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of Aberystwyth, Monash Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, 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 Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of Wisconsin at Madison, the Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of Colorado, Virginia Commonwealth Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of Alabama, Eastern New Mexico Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, Murray State Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, Purdue Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of Mississippi, Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of North Carolina at Pawbroke, The Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of South Florida, Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of South Dakota, Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of North Dakota, Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of Miami at Florida, Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø of Central Florida, Miami Public Library, Louisiana State Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, Nicholls State Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, Southeastern Louisiana Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, McNeese State Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, among others.

Email: briankelly@louisiana.edu 

M.F.A. in Printmaking
Louisiana State Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, Baton Rouge, LA

B.F.A. in Printmaking
Northern Illinois Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø, DeKalb County, IL

Certificate in Waterless Lithography
Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque, NM

Ë÷Äá×ÊÔ´Íø Distinguished Professor (2010)

UL Lafayette Eminent Faculty for Leadership and Service (2017)

Dr. Ray P. Authement Excellence in Teaching Award (2019)

UL Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award