Shannon Wade Kelly
Experimental Filmmaker, Video Installation Artist, Animator

Grants/Video Installations

Denver Convention Center Hotel Public Art Project: Awarded grant by the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs to design and install a permanent site-specific video public art piece for the Hyatt Denver Convention Center Hotel. Developed and created the forty-minute experimental film Forgotten Landscape for permanent looped display at the Hotel. Total budget: $230,000. Completed August 2006.

Denver International Airport Film and Video Installation Project: Commissioned by the Denver Mayor's Office of Art, Culture and Film to create the experimental film, Trans- (2004), as part of an hour-long video loop for performance at the Denver International Airport. Total budget: $12,000. Completed November 2005.

Committees

Denver Justice Center Campus Project Evaluation Panel: Currently an Artist representative on a panel to select and commission public artwork (budget $3.6 million) for the Denver Justice Center to be built in 2007.

Employment Experience

Kino-Eye Productions, Denver, CO: 2004-Present. Filmmaker,
Production Manager, Owner.
Shannon W. Kelly Films, Denver, CO: 2000-2004. Animator,
Freelance Filmmaker.
Aronson Films, Boulder, CO: 1999-2001. Organizer of Allen Ginsberg Film & Video Archive. Designed Archive Catalog for Stanford University.

Education

BFA - Film Production, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2000. Honors Thesis and Film FrankenChrist (1999). Areas of emphasis: Experimental Filmmaking and Animation

BA - Film Studies & German Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder - 2000

Universität Regensburg, Germany, Study Abroad, School Year 1997-1998
Areas of emphasis: German Language & Politics, German Art History, Italian Neo-Realist Film

Art Showings

Prints of stills from Forgotten Landscape at "Submit to Print"
annual Andenken Gallery group print show, Denver, CO Feb. 2006

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