Bee Here Now
2024
Kelsey Scult
New Orleans, Louisiana
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Kelsey Scult
Kelsey Scult is a New Orleans-based multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Her work explores the processing of inherited memory, the psychic untangling of violence, and the physical intersection of desire and decay. Through her work, Scult is interested in expanding how to physically contain and reimagine community archives; from sausage casings to cases of honey. Food and grief are her muses. Films Kelsey has produced and directed have played at Sundance, SXSW, Outfest, Atlanta Film Fest, and more. She has exhibited her multimedia installation work across the country and abroad, including locally in New Orleans at The Front, Antenna, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Tulane’s Carroll Gallery, and The Parlour Gallery. She most recently was a Producer for the video installation "BLACK DELIGHT" directed by Ruth Owens, which was exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center as part of Prospect.6. She is a member of The Front Gallery, an alumna of the New Orleans Film Society’s Southern Producers Lab, Co-Founder of Palestine Film Day, and Manager of Filmmaker Services at the New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC), which supports independent filmmakers across Louisiana.
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2025
Website / Social Links
Food sits at the heart of my creative practice. Through all my mediums, the themes I explore—grief, intimacy, memory, violence, and communal healing—are so poignantly present in food.”