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Childhood experiences continue to inform my work. A Louisiana native, I grew up surrounded by bayous, cotton fields and Indian mounds. I loved exploring all of these venues and spent a lot of time looking for arrowheads, digging in the turn rows, and examining wild life in the bayou. Rather isolated, entertainment came from my own invention. I remember a game my sister and I called cool spot. The turn row at the edge of the cotton field was dusty and extremely hot. We would drag the shovel to the turn row and dig deeply till we hit cool, damp earth. Each of us would stand in the hot dust until one of us would break down and jump into the cool spot alleviating our burning feet thus losing the game. In the process of digging we would find an assortment of treasures, broken bottles, old marbles, pottery shards and an occasional arrowhead. These bits and pieces, rough fragments of objects hinted at the history of their former life and created a mysterious narrative. These experiences still hold a certain fascination for me and continue to surface in my work through elements, symbols, and story telling.

education
MFA Painting/Drawing..Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 1985
MA Art Education Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 1976
BA Art Education Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 1975
Additional Study
Louisiana Tech "Tech Rome" Program
Included study in Rome, Florence, Athens, Paris, Munich, and Amsterdam.
 
 
experience
Professor of Art, School of Art,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
2003-present
Associate Professor, School of Art,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
1995-2003
Assistant Professor, School of Art,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
1992-1995
Instructor, School of Art,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
1990-1992
Art Instructor, Talented Art Program,
Monroe City School Board, Monroe, LA
1987-1989
Art Specialist, Ouachita Parish School Board, Monroe, LA 1986-1987
Teaching Assistant, School of Art,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
1982-1985
Art Instructor, Lee Junior High School, Monroe, LA 1981-1982
Assistant Director, Schmidt Gallery, Monroe, LA 1979-1981
Art Instructor, River Oaks School, Monroe, LA 1977-1979
Museum Assistant/Art Instructor,
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
1974-1978
 
exhibitions
Two Person Exhibition, Katherine Amman Vellard and Kevin S. Kennedy, The Enterprise Center, Ruston, LA 2007
20"x20"x20" Compact Exhibition, LSU Union Art Gallery,
Baton Rouge, LA
 
Donna... Service With A Smile, invitational exhibition of works on paper, Turner Art Center, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA  
America's 2000 All Media Competition, national Juried competition,
Northwest Art Center, Minot, North Dakota
2006
Artspace Group Exhibition, Shreveport Regional Art Center,
Shreveport, LA
 
Twin City Art Foundation 33rd Annual Art Competition,
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
 
Members Juried Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art,
Monroe, LA
 
Biannual Faculty Exhibition, Louisiana Tech University,
Ruston, LA
 
Bonefolder and Brush/Pencil and Pulp, Penland Gallery, Penland, North Carolina 2005
Outside the Box: Collection of Pamela M. Baker, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA  
Eye Twenty Group Exhibition, Charles B. Goddard Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Ardmore, Oklahoma  
For Donna, invitational exhibition,Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana curated by Deborah Luster  
Group Exhibition, Dunbar Art Gallery, Grambling, Louisiana 2003
Eye Twenty Group Revisited, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA  
Eye Twenty Group Revisited, South Arkansas Art Center,
ElDorado, AR
2002
Eye Twenty Group Revisited, River Oaks Square Arts Center, Alexandria, LA  
Group Exhibition, Levee Gallery, Monroe, LA  
Mi Nido, ArtScan Gallery, Houston, TX  
Turnrow, Group Exhibition of Louisiana Artists, Bry Gallery, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA 2001
Drawing in the Fourth Dimension, ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas 2000
The 27th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Honorable Mention James Surls, juror, Monroe, LA  
Group Exhibition, Tower Gallery, Shreveport, LA  
Fault Lines, ArtScan: A Contemporary Art Gallery, eight person exhibition , Houston, TX 1999
Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Heriard-Cimino Gallery,
New Orleans, LA
1998
Owning Each Other, national juried exhibition in cooperation with Amnesty International, the Meeting House for Theology and the Arts, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts  
Arte Sagrado, national juried exhibition, Concordia University Art Gallery, Austin, TX  
The Divine Comedy: Images of Heaven, Hell, and Limbo, national juried exhibition, John A. Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery, Arnold, Maryland  
Solo show - St. John the Divine Cathedral, Nave, New York, New York  
Solo show - Levee Gallery, Monroe LA  
Solo show - Northminster Church Gallery, Monroe, LA  
Installation, Come Shining collaborative installation with photographer Deborah Luster and poet C.D. Wright, Poet's Theatre, New York, NY 1997
Installation, Holy Water: Learning to Float collaborative installation with photographer Pinkie M.M. Bass, Eastern Shore Art Gallery, Fairhope, Alabama  
Dix Artistes De Louisiane, Artists' Alliance Art Gallery, Lafayette, Louisiana. One of 10 Louisiana artists selected to represent the state in this exhibition during the Festival Internationale  
Border to Border V, The Larson Biennial National Drawing Exhibition, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee 1995
22nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art,
Monroe LA
 
Twelve Louisiana Women Artists, The Gallery, Monroe Civic Center, Monroe, LA 1994
North Georgia College National Drawing Exhibition, North Georgia College, Dahlonega, GA 1992
Two Person Exhibition, The Baton Rouge Gallery,
Baton Rouge, LA
 
Solo show-Kisatchie Gallery, Shreveport, LA  
Seven Louisiana Artists, Contemporanea Fine Arts Gallery, Hot Springs, AR 1991
Drawings and Prints: A Juried Exhibition of Artists in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas, LSU Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA  
Wild Life: A Group Exhibition, Stoner Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA  
Eleven Louisiana Artists, Hoag Gallery, Sangre De Christo Art Center Gallery, Pueblo, Colorado 1990
Dallas Women's Caucus for Art Exhibition, ARCO Tower Gallery, Dallas, TX  
20th Annual Photographs, Drawings, and Prints Exhibition, national juried exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas. Juror: Richard Eagan, Director, Twinnings Gallery, NY 1989
Solo show - Rountree Gallery, Monroe, Louisiana 1988
Louisiana Competition 1987, National juried exhibition, Riverside Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Juror: Lowrey Sims, Associate Curator, Twentieth Century Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1987
Twenty-Ninth Annual Delta Art Exhibition, national juried exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas. Juror: Grace Glueck,
Art News Editor, The New York Times
1986
Solo show - Stoner Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana 1985
Solo show - Rountree Gallery, Monroe, LA  
Mid-America Biennial, national juried exhibition, Owensboro Museum of
Fine Art, Owensboro, Kentucky. Juror: Thomas M. Messer, Director, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1984
Solo show - Bry Art Gallery, Northeast Louisiana University,
Monroe, LA
1983
Solo show - Galerie Contact, Bordeaux, France 1980
Solo show - Schmidt Gallery, Monroe, LA  
 
awards/honors
Higher Education Art Educator of the Year
Louisiana Art Education Association
2007
Louisiana Divsion of the Arts, $5000 Artists Fellowship Award 2003
Honorable Mention, The 27th Annual Juried Competition,
Masur Museum of Art, James Surls, juror, Monroe, Louisiana
2000
Juror's Special Merit Award, Arte Sagrado,
Concordia University Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
1998
Attended META, An invitational one week Artists Retreat in Black Mountain, North Carolina founded by artist/curator Roger Manley 1996, 1998
Louisiana Higher Education Art Educator of the Year 1998, Louisiana Art Education Association 1998
Juror's Award, 24th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana 1997
Commission, the Twin City Ballet, created three original paintings 25 ft. x 40 ft. for use as backdrop for their 25th Anniversary performance, Flowers 1996
Award of Distinction and Permanent Collection Purchase, 22nd Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana 1995
Commission Award, Monroe Symphony Orchestra Poster Design Competition, Monroe, Louisiana 1986
Honorable Mention, Painting, Louisiana Exhibition for the Arts, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana 1985
First Place, Graphics, Louisiana Exhibition for the Arts, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana 1982



 

contact
kvellard@latech.edu

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