Local Artist Aims to Use Talent for Greater Good
Heather Kelly's art reflects her life growing up in Royal Oak.
2011 was a great year for mixed media artist and art teacher Heather Kelly. Kelly was awarded second place in the Michigan Fine Arts Competition, she received her first solo show and a personal work of art was acknowledged at ArtPrize. Though she dabbled in art from a young age, taking classes at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (BBAC) and the Paint Creek Center for the Arts, the Bloomfield Village resident admits she is still growing and learning as an artist and a teacher. For the past nine years Kelly has been teaching art at Troy High School and working on personal projects on her own time. Kelly enjoys working in a variety of mediums and can be found morphing words into images, painting canvases of buildings in Detroit or even …
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