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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A spotlight was put on exceptional faculty members and elementary schools at Tuesday's meeting.
Troy visual arts teacher Heather Kelly was acknowledged at the Troy School Board of Education meeting Tuesday night for competing in the 2011 Grand Rapids ArtPrize competition and having her work chosen for exhibit at ArtPrize. Kelly, who teaches at Troy High School, was one of several individuals recognized at the meeting for recent accomplishments. Kelly, who lives in Bloomfield Township, entered her mixed media piece “Wish” in the huge art competition in Grand Rapids. The piece is a portrayal of motherhood, combining both text and image with digital photography and metallic powders. Before a winner was selected, Kelly had made it clear that a portion of her winnings would be going to the Make a Wish Foundation if she won. If she didn’t…
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