Kelli Williams's portfolio

Work samples

Kids In America Exhibition

The Kids In America Exhibition Shot
Kids In America Exhibition Documentation

Kids in America is an augmented reality installation that investigates the idea of aging, tropes, and stereotypes in the age of social media.
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.
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.

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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Kids in America

Kids in America is a series of stop-motion animated photographs brought to life by augmented reality. The series investigates aging, beauty, and identity in the age of social media.

Kids In America Exhibition

The Kids In America Exhibition Shot
Kids I America Series Documentation Video

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.
As If

As If
40” x 72”
Stop Motion Animated Augmented Reality Photograph
2022
She Doesn't Even Go Here

She Doesn’t Even Go Here
40” x 72”
Stop Motion Animated Augmented Reality Photograph
2022
Send in Paolo

Send In Paolo
40” x 72”
Stop Motion Animated Augmented Reality Photograph
2022
Cash

Cash
40” x 30”
Stop Motion Animated Augmented Reality Photograph
2025
Cashmere

Cashmere
40” x 30”
Stop Motion Animated Augmented Reality Photograph
2025
The Girl Room

The Girls Room
40” x 60”
Stop Motion Animated Augmented Reality Photograph
2025
K.I.T

K.I.T
Dimensions variable
Mixed media installation (found images, handwritten text, photography)
2025
K.I.T (detail shot)

K.I.T Detail
Dimensions variable
Mixed media installation (found images, handwritten text, photography)
2025

Onlooker Series

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.

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.
Rei

24x26

Augmented reality print

2019
Nova

24x36

Augmented reality print

2019
Raven

24x36

Augmented Reality Print

2019
Khadija

24x36

Augmented Reality Print

2019
Deena

Deena
24x26
Augmented reality print
2019
Jane

Jane
24x26
Augmented reality print
2019

This is Tru Web Series

This is Tru is a stop-motion animated web series that follows the misadventures of Tru Collins, a quirky, twenty-two-year-old student who is trying to understand her place in the world. Through raw and witty humor, watch as Tru navigates the ever-evolving world of social media with Tee, a militant, know-it-all younger sister, Toni, a beautiful, socialite older sister, Reg, an old-school father, and Ruth, a mom who is always up to date on all the celebrity gossip.

This is True Character/ Advertisment - Tru
This is Tru Episodes 1-3

Episode #1 - The Distraction
Episode #2 - The Autocorrect
Episode #3 - The Dome Piece
This is True Character/ Advertisment - Toni
This is True Character/ Advertisment - Tee
This is True Character/ Advertisment - Ruth
This is True Character/ Advertisment - Reg

Black Lives Matter Inside Out Project

Organized by Morgan State University’s Visual Arts Department, the Black Lives Matter Inside Out Group Action is a visual response to the #BlackLivesMatter Movement. Created in 2012 after the murder of Trayvon Martin, the movement “[broadens] the conversation around state violence to include all of the ways in which Black people are intentionally left powerless at the hands of the state.” Our Group Action aims to shed light on the presence of invisible boundaries and limitations placed on Black people throughout different facets of our lives.