Bio
Kellene Turner is a contemporary expressionism fine artist and muralist based in Corbin, KY. With over 20 years of experience she has over 80 murals spanning Kentucky and surrounding states. She has shown her fine art nationally and sold works around the world. She is passionate about advocating for the arts, career readiness, and how it enhances the quality of life.
Potential Residency Project
Kellene Turner is a lifelong learner, artist, teacher, and advocate for the arts. Her experience spans from working with cities, schools, non-profits, individuals and communities.
Introductions into a residency will begin with art as a career and my journey in artrepreneurship. Leaning into how art influences space and is an integral part of any career and life practice is the biggest take away for any program. Her experience as a PRI Teaching Artist gives her the knowledge to know each residency will be different and specifically tailored to the atmosphere, skill level, and integrate as many core subjects that the residency allows.
The following are examples of residencies. I have a vast skill set and multiple disciplines that allow me to integrate the arts into conventional and unconventional lessons. Should you have a new idea for a residency I would love to start that conversation of how we can bring a project to life.
Examples of Residencies
Visual Art Residency: (specific lessons aimed at skill building, and confidence) each example is a stand-alone residency that can be a single day, multiple days, or week
o Drawing from observation (pencil, charcoal, pen)
o Open critique
Art and Health Residency: (working specifically with students to create a body of artwork for local healthcare facilities)
This project can be a gallery style installation or a modular mural (interior or exterior)
o Color, Shapes, Subject and Emotion
o Medium to be decided, floral and nature subject matter
Mural Residency: (a way to create culture, create a meaningful legacy, and positive impact)
Murals can be created in any size and applied directly to the wall or using an alternative lightweight all-weather material.
o Planning
o Meet with officials to review space, size, beginning designs/ideas-Budget, timeline, contracts
o Before scheduled date
o Prep work, materials, scheduling with classrooms and teachers
o Typical First Day
o Artist introduction, Bio, Art as a Career, Mural 101
o If time allows art lesson and beginning mural design with students
o Remainder of week (or longer depending lesson and class sizes)
o One to two days finalizing design, admin. Approval
o Work with students on methods of transferring mural designs
o Color blocking, blending, details
o Refine details topcoat
o Last day
o Verbal review of work and slideshow recap
o Letters of gratitude
o Optional Reveal or Reception