Mo Kelman is a sculptor, fiber artist and professor emeritus of Art at the Community College of Rhode Island,lives in Providence. A recipient of a U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Kelman has exhibited internationally. In 2012 she received an Artist’s Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Mo Kelman Current work is inspired by ephemeral phenomena—clouds, weather, smoke and flowing water. Complex forces determine their shapes from moment to moment: air movement, massing of water molecules, temperature change, evaporation, gravity or chemical transformation. Mo Kelman contrive forms that merge physical aspects of architecture, industry and nature. Transparency, lightness and shadows are essential elements  in she search for a logic that is both formal and poetic.

Mo Kelman Often build tensile structures, where a pliable membrane is bridled and shaped by cables that apply tension. Using mokume shibori, a shaped-resist dyeing technique, she transform white silk organza into an elastic, translucent, woodgrain-patterned membrane. This skin is tied to structures she build with wood, bamboo and wire, and takes its sculptural form in response to stretching and tethering. Mo Kelman work continues to reflect she deep sense of foreboding, awe and curiosity in nature as it exists today.