Lori Kella was born in St. Joseph Michigan in 1974. She received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and later attended Cornell University where she received her MFA in photography in 2001. A selection of her recent work was exhibited at Gallery Drei, in Dresden, Germany, The Print Center in Philadelphia, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Texas State University, and William Busta Gallery in Cleveland, OH. Lori Kella’s work has been featured in several other major exhibitions including a one-person exhibition, Lori Kella: Coordinates, as part of the Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series at MOCA Cleveland, and Global Anxieties: Nine Perspectives on a Changing Planet at the College of Wooster Art Museum. Kella has received three OAC Individual Fellowships Awards, and recently received a Creative Workforce Fellowship, from the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture & Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Lori Kella lives in Cleveland, OH and she is currently a part-time Assistant Professor at Kent State University’s School of Art. http://www.lorikella.com/