Kelly Tate
Member Since August 2007
Artist Statement A native of Louisiana, Kelly C. Tate was born in 1979. Several years later, in 2003, she received her Bachelor of Arts in German language from Louisiana State University. During the final year of her Bachelor degree, she discovered an overwhelming interest in photography. She scheduled an elective class in basic photography on a whim and had no idea how this simple action would change her life. It’s too bad it’s a cliché, because that is really how it happened. After graduation, she ran away to Houston, took another photography class, and returned to Louisiana State University, where she would eventually pursue her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography.
The years in graduate school provided the opportunity to explore a cross-disciplinary approach to making work.