Kelly O'Dell

(American, born 1973)

Lopez Island-based artist Kelly O'Dell creates glass artworks. Her work explore themes of memento mori (an object serving as a warning or reminder of death), as well as extinction, preservation, and origin. O'Dell's father had a glass studio in her childhood home in Hawai'i.

O'Dell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She has taught at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Northwestern Washington, and Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle.