"Building a Tree House" Installation

Kelly Hart worked as a free lance photographer with both the Drama Department and the Berkeley Folk Music Festival. Several of his images were used for record album covers. He was employed as an Exhibit Specialist for the Berkeley Art Center, hanging art shows and preparing brochures announcing the shows.

Kelly worked as a free lance cinematographer on various film productions, including a documentary film about the San Francisco Diggers. He developed a unique technique for making animated movies and was awarded a US patent on the process in 1975. He created the Evolution of Man sequence of animation for “The Naked Ape,” a Hollywood film. Kelly produced a number of educational video programs ranging in topics from llamas, animal telepathy, student life in the Soviet Union and Mexico, and sustainable architecture. Kelly founded several websites and has written several books related to sustainable architecture.

After moving to Silver City, New Mexico in 2015 Kelly took up wood sculpture as a creative outlet that combines his long-standing love of working with wood and his lifetime involvement with various art media. He has created several “sculpted tiny homes” based on travel trailers decorated with wood marquetry art. Now he continues creating wood marquetry using mostly locally gleaned wood, as shown at the Grant County Art Guild Gallery.