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KELLY SCHIRMANN is a working artist from Northern California. She is the author of Popular Music and The New World, and the co-author, with Tyler Brewington, of Boyfriend Mountain and Nature Machine. She received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Montana, where she occasionally teaches composition and creative writing. She is the co-owner of Omo Studio, a seasonal craft studio specializing in stoneware ceramics, sculpture, and woodworking. Her music projects include(d) headband, Sung Mountains (with Jay Fiske), and Young Family (with Sam Pink). She was the founding editor of Black Cake, a web-based record label that released over twenty albums of poetry and sound experiments from 2013-2015. Her blog is called Field Notes. She currently lives and teaches in Missoula, Montana.

THIS WEBSITE is a static digital archive of a partial selection of some of the work that I do or have done. It does not account for things I’d like to do, or things I might currently be pushing into existence, or work I would make if I had more money or time, or especially those daily practices and rituals and states that make daily life bearable but resist a neat summation here. I identify as a working multimedia artist utilizing language, paper, clay, paint, sound recordings, and administrative effort; it can be hard to keep those mediums looking tidy and sensible here. I try to keep this archive current, though my goal is always to spend more time in my life than on a computer. If you email me, I’m pretty good at answering. Please enjoy this collection of 2D images and thoughts. I am so grateful to you for being here.