Janelle VanderKelen

Janelle VanderKelen is an artist, curator, and educator based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her films and ceramic sculptures explore relationships between imperfect bodies, including human, plant, and geological, and highlight the agency of plants. She was Artist in Residence at Grand Canyon Conservancy in 2024, where she made a short 16mm experimental film on endemic plant growth and climate change. She also gave an artist's talk and a film screening on ecological agency and environmentalism.