Kelann Currie-Williams is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based visual artist, writer, and oral historian, where 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 as well as a BA in Communication Studies (with a minor in Film Studies), both from Concordia University. She is a member of Senselab, a research-creation lab under Milieux Institute’s Performing Art Research Cluster (LePARC) and an affiliate of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS).
