Kelann Currie-Williams is a ND visual artist, writer, and oral historian based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her research spans the fields
of visual culture, photography theory, Black Canadian studies, and cultural geography. Her current work focuses on the histories of vernacular photography practices in Black Canada and their presence within community, personal, and institutional photographic archives and collections.
She holds a MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Fine Arts as well as a BA in Communication Studies (with a minor in Film Studies), both from Concordia University. She is an affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) and member of the 3Ecologies Project, an organization dedicated to participatory experimentation in research-creation.
