Work samples

  • Onlooker Series Documentation

    The Onlooker project is a series of animated portraits that come to life with Augmented reality. The series questions the idea of agency and power in the age of social media. Inspired by black dandy fashion to the afro punk genre, each character in the series represents the diversity of ways the black community is using fashion and identity as a way of resistance.

    **Please download the Artivive app on the google play or apple store to view the augmented reality experience.

  • Kids_in_america_documentation

    Kids in America is an augmented reality installation that investigates the idea of aging, tropes, and stereotypes in the age of social media.
    **Please download the Artivive app on the google play or apple store to view the augmented reality experience.

  • Cops and Robbers - Poster
    Cops and Robbers - Poster

    Click here to view my contribution to the film

    Click here to view the full film on Netflix

    Time Stamp 1:54 - 2:10

     

    During the Summer of 2020, I was asked to create a short segment in a group project inspired by a poem that was created in response to the Ahmaud Arbery Murders that took place. The film premiered on Netflix on December 28th 2020. The film received a peabody award and was nominated for an NAACP Award nomination for Best Animated Short and the Hollywood Critics Association Award nomination for Best Short. Every animator donated their time to the project and all proceeds collected were donated to a Black Lives Matter organization and HBCU’s; Morgan State University and Alabama State University’s animation departments.

  • Demo Reel

    Kelli Williams Demo Reel is a collection of animated clips from various projects from 2017 - 2022.

About Kelli

Kelli Williams is an animator and visual artist. She uses stop-motion animation, photography, augmented reality, installation, and humor to create work that comments on society through the lens of social media and technology. She is an alumna of Morgan State University where she majored in Fine Art, with a concentration in photography. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Columbus College of Art in Design. She is a professor at the Maryland… more

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Onlooker Series

  • Rei
    Rei

    24x26 

    Augmented reality print 

    2019

     

  • Nova
    Nova

    24x36 

    Augmented reality print 

    2019

  • Raven
    Raven

    24x36 

    Augmented Reality Print 

    2019

  • Khadija
    Khadija

    24x36 

    Augmented Reality Print 

    2019

Restricted

"No Parking", "One Way", and "Tow Away Zone" are phrases all too familiar to a person living in the city. "Restricted" is an artistic series that embodies the frustrations caused by the impossible limits set throughout the city. All images featured in the series are manipulated to create unrealistic scenarios that illustrate the subconscious of frustrated city dweller.
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