Kelli Rae Adams

Kelli Rae Adams is a visual artist who works mainly in ceramics and installation, often combining clay with other materials such as concrete, food, and video. Her work addresses economic systems, labor, and value. She has shown at the Corcoran, the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown, and the Museum of International Ceramic Art in Denmark. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Duke University. She trained for five years in Japan with master potter Tetsuro Hatabe. In 2019 she served as Arts Envoy to Honduras for the U.S. Department of State. She was a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska, in 2019 and again in 2020. Some work in her WORK/STUDY exhibition on student debt was made there.