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Kelly Smith Cassidy is from a family of professional artists. Her grandparents owned a gallery on 5th Avenue in Old Town Scottsdale during the 1960s. Her parents met at that same gallery and, a few years after they were married, started their own art business creating one-of-a-kind welded bronze and copper sculptures and selling them at their own galleries and at art festivals.
Kelly started attending art shows starting as a newborn and some of her first memories are of being at her parents art booths at the Thunderbird Art Shows and at her parent’s art gallery in Scottsdale.
At 16, Kelly learned to make sculptures from her parents and started to sell her work alongside her parents at shows.
Kelly has shown her work over ten seasons at the AZ Fine Art Expo including the first season and has shown her work through galleries and art festivals since she was a teenager.
Today Kelly’s work is featured in 7 galleries throughout the United States, sold work all across the globe and she has created three monumental sculptures for the Burning Man festival as well as worked as collaborating artist of 3 grant pieces for Burning Man including creating the metal work for the 2024 Burning Man temple, the Temple of Together.