Capital City Arts Initiative

Click here to read the essay: RS Everything and Nothing Essay

Danielle Kelly wrote the exhibition essay for Entitled to the Sun. Her project-based visual art practice ranges from installation to performance and has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the western and mid-western United States, including St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Portland. Kelly’s literary work, ranging from essays and art criticism to arts & cultural reporting, has appeared in a variety of West Coast-based publications and includes catalog essays for the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum, and the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, among others. Kelly has served as the Executive Director and Exhibition Designer/Curator for the Las Vegas Neon Museum, and as Executive Director for Surface Design Association, publisher of the Surface Design Journal. Kelly’s recent essay “Home Depot Art” appeared in The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture (2020, Bloomsbury). Kelly earned an MFA at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in sculpture with additional studies in Non-Profit Management. She received a BFA painting and performing arts from Beloit College in Wisconsin and did additional studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.