She is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who received her BFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and her MFA from the Electronic Media Arts and Design program at the University of Denver. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including film, video, interactive design and installation. She has shown nationally and internationally at film, performance and interactive media festivals and exhibitions. Recent exhibitions and residencies include The Banff Centre, Banff Canada, Video Medeja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia, and Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro, N.C. Currently Kelly is producing an interactive project that draws on the cultural significances of indigenous dances in the annual celebration of the Guelaguetza in Oaxaca, Mexico.