LETTER K STUDIO // the creative work of Kelly Bryant.
KELLY BRYANT is a designer/maker based in Auburn, AL. Trained primarily as a publication designer her creative practices explore the analog techniques of collage within the formats of books, broadsides and design. She is also a Professor of Graphic Design at Auburn University who has worked and taught in the areas of foundation design, typography, illustration, publication and identity design for over 30 years.
Bryant has also received various teaching, design and fine art awards and her work can be found in publications such as: UPPERCASE magazine, Creative Quarterly’s 100 Best annual, Creative Quarterly, Print’s Regional Design Annual, Fingerprint No. 2, Best Practices for Graphic Designers: Grids and Page Layouts, Creative Anarchy, and HOW magazine. Her work has also been exhibited nationally in New York City, NY; Biloxi, MS; Savannah, GA; Kent, OH; Fargo, ND; Seattle, WA; Phoenix, AZ; and San Diego, CA.
Thank you for visiting my website. // All work copyright Kelly Bryant 2025
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SELECTED HONORS + AWARDS // design
Creative Quarterly’s 100 Best 2013 annual, various Creative Quarterly magazines, Print Regional Design Annual, Fingerprint No. 2, Best Practices for Graphic Designers: Grids and Page Layouts, Creative Anarchy, HOW magazine, Color Management for Logos (case study), Trademarks USA, American Corporate Identity 20 and 21, Creativity 34, 36, 40, 41 and 42 annuals and UPPERCASE 35 feature article: Kelly Bryant: Collages and Paintings Inspired by Playful Typographic Details.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS + AWARDS // fine art
- Faculty Exhibition 8 // Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL / Invitational
- Stuff // Moon Gallery, Rome, GA / Invitational
- Shades of Gray exhibition, Previous Southern Prize Fellowship Alabama Winners // Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery, Montgomery, AL / Invitational
- Hello Thank You Come In: 50th Anniversary Members Exhibition // Center for Book Arts, NYC / Invitational
- Voices Carry exhibition // Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL / Invitational
- 2023 South Arts Alabama Fellow for Visual Arts and Southern Prize Finalist // Award and Juried traveling exhibition including the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS; The Bo Bartlett Center in Columbus, GA; The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAAWC), Santa Rosa Beach, FL; Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL / Juried
- Creative Quarterly 70, 54, 50, and 45, The Journal of Art and Design // Various Fine Art Winner + Runner-Up Awards / Several pieces published in Online Gallery
- Out of Nothing exhibition // ExNihilo Gallery, Savannah, GA / Juried
- Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship Showcase // Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery, Montgomery, AL / Invitational
- UPPERCASE magazine // Issue 35
- Various University and College Designers Association (UCDA) Annual Design Competitions / Juried
- Special Collections // University and College Designers Association Annual Design Competition // Kent State University Special Collections (Silver Award and various Awards of Excellence) / Juried
- Signs of the Times // North Dakota State University / Broadside Merit Award / Juried
- Kelly Bryant, Miniature Watercolors // Lyda Rose Gallery, Homewood, AL / Invitational
- The Under 35 Show // New Life Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL / Juried
- Various Private Collections
TEACHING AWARDS // Auburn University
- Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award / College of Architecture, Design and Construction / Auburn University 2021, 2016 + 2008
- The Gerald and Emily Leischuck Endowed Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching / 2018
- Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award / Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society 2018
- Alumni Association Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award / 2008
- Teaching Excellence Award / Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society, Architecture and the Allied Art 2004
FELLOWSHIPS + GRANTS //
- South Arts Alabama Fellow for Visual Arts // 2023
- Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship // 2020 + 2010
- Southern Arts Federation Southern Artistry program // member of juried registry