Kelly Rider

Kelly Rider has a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Book and Paper Arts.  As an artist, Kelly finds it hard to content herself with one art form.  Instead, she enjoys mixing media and method, happily swinging from artists’ books to interactive paper sculptures, to painting and printmaking, with dashes of liturgical art and installation thrown in for good measure.

She has taught art to children and adults in New Mexico, Chicago, and now Riverside, California where she recently moved with her family.  Kelly Rider's artworks have been exhibited in Chicago, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Massachusetts, and California.

Sculpture

Pearl Mother with specimens

handmade paper & mixed media

2004