Mary Ferris Kelly is a native of Athens, Tennessee. She is a graduate
of the National Cathedral School in Washington, DC and Sophie Newcomb
College in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a former instructor in
painting and drawing at Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens,
Tennessee, and the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga.
Mrs. Kelly has exhibited and been an award winner in various
competitive shows, including Art in the Embassies Program, Hunter
Museum Annual Exhibits, The Central South Exhibit, Spectrum Exhibits at
Hunter Museum, The Chattanooga Arts Festivals, the Savannah Arts
Festivals and the Calloway Gardens Annual Exhibit.
Mrs. Kellyís work has been featured at various galleries and museums in
Tennessee, Georgia and Washington D. C. She has been represented in
various juried collections, such as: "Tennessee Painting Today" at
Cheekwood Museum in Nashville, the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, through the
Art in the Embassies Program. Her paintings in that program were hung
in the U.S. Embassies in Poland and Ceylon. She is represented in many
private and public collections and has done numerous commissions
throughout the Southeast and East.
One Person Shows
Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
The Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Tennessee Wesleyan College, Athens, TN
The Parthenon, Nashville, TN
Southern College of Seventh-Day Adventist, Collegedale TN
Dalton Arts Center, Dalton, GA
Corporate and Public Collections
Marriott Corporation
Crawford Long Hospital
Emory University
R.J.R Nabisco
Ernst and Young
Image Design Corporate Headquarters
Gillett Communications
Paine Webber
Griffin, Cochrane, Marshall, Elger... Atlanta
Landmark Group
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Bell South Corporation
Hilton Corporation
Cheekwood Museum, Tennessee
Hunter Museum, Tennessee
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
National Womenís Museum, Washington, DC
Private Collections
Dr. and Mrs. Wallace Kaufman
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Raymond
Burt Tillman and Charlie Andrews
John and Sally Clarke
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Casey
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Rosing
Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Thorton
J. Robert Douglas
Mr. and Mrs. J. McCarty
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Torbett
Mr. William Marriot
Mr. and Mrs. Olan Mills
Mr. and Mrs. William Holmberg
Mrs. Elizabeth Lypton Davenport
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Street
Kim and Scott Withrow
Stacy and Otis Ingram
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