Create With Us

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Make art with exhibiting artist and photographer Kelli Connell. Learn about Connell's series Double Life, featured in the historic McCormick House. Inspired by Connell's work, make your own art piece using yourself as the character.

Image: Kelli Connell, The Room is Full of Clocks, 2025, archival inkjet print

Kelli Connell (b. 1974) is a photographer based in Chicago. Through her images, she addresses issues of sexuality, identity, and self-perception. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications include Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture and Center for Creative Photography, March 2024), PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships and residencies from The Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work, and The Center for Creative Photography.

Portrait of Kelli Connell by Natalie Krick.