ARTIST/MAKER

Kelly Hickey is a textile and found objects artist living and working in Vermont. From 2013-2025 she was owner/designer of ‘edie&glo’, a design company which utilized vintage fabrics as a platform for education in reduce-reuse-recycle. Following an Arquetopia Artist Residency, Oaxaca, Mexico (2017) and Driftwood Studios, South Africa (2020) she has added embroidery into her work to broaden the richness of storytelling. She enjoys working on commissions and collaborations for individuals as well as gallery exhibitions. Her work has been shown throughout the US.

Kelly has been developing an installation titled ‘all purpose floWEr’ which encompasses remaking eighty pounds of fabric waste into one large canvas addressing environmental and cultural impacts of textile overconsumption. Kelly is a graduate of University of Delaware in Apparel Design (BS ‘88).

COMMUNITY ARTS ACTIVIST & ADVOCATE

Kelly Hickey is a community organizer. As Creative Consultant and Manager of ‘Bundle’ (2019-21), an innovative tool to use unoccupied storefronts in Middlebury, Vermont as event spaces to revitalize the downtown during a 3 year major reconstruction project she; developed and marketed a wide breath of programming; advised individuals, entrepreneurs, community groups and government agencies toward engaging Pop-Up programming; and successfully established avenues for lease agreements between property and business owners. Kelly was named a 2019 National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow and 2021 McCardell Citizen Award recipient. She was the ‘21-‘23 Zone Agent for Vermont Creative Network, served as Interim Collections Manager/Curator for Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History ‘25-‘26 and is a current Board member of Middlebury College’s Friends of the Art Museum.