Kelly Denton has been teaching art both in community art centers and schools for over 25 years. She taught at the Moultrie Art Center for ten years where she kept a full schedule of children’s art classes and summer youth art camps. After moving to Prattville she was actively involved in building a name for the newly formed Prattville Center for the Arts. There she taught both children and adult classes and ran Summer Art Camps. She also worked along side other art center teachers to promote the arts and hold student art shows. Kelly also taught at Billingsley High School while living in Prattville. Kelly currently works at Spanish Fort High School and has been employed by the Baldwin County school system for ten years.
Kelly Denton is an artist who works from her home studio and often completing commission pieces of art. Her works have been exhibited in Savannah, Atlanta, and Moultrie, Georgia; in Fairhope, Montgomery, and Birmingham, Alabama and in Tallahassee, Florida. She describes her style as ‘Coastal Impressionism’, which is a mix of many influences along with her love of the Gulf Coast region. Her paintings are colorful and joyful. Her subjects vary widely and she loves a challenge.
Kelly returned to college in 1986 to become a certified art teacher. Kelly majored in Studio Art at Georgia Southern University and Art Education at Valdosta State University. She also attended Savannah college of Art and Design for a quarter to take painting and design classes. She has returned to SCAD for continuing education classes several times since becoming a teacher.
Kelly grew up all over the southeast, eventually attending the last three years of high school in Marietta, Georgia. She and Mark have been married for 30 years, have three grown sons, one daughter-in-law they adore and are still waiting for grandchildren.
