she/they, settler

Kelly Day

Kelly Day is an art educator, punk scholar, and interdisciplinary artist based in Montreal. She is completing a Master of Art Education at Concordia University, where her thesis proposes community care as a guiding principle of punk pedagogy through feminist and intersectional oral histories of the 1990s emo, punk, and hardcore scenes. She recently presented this research at KISMIF 2026 in Porto, Portugal. She is a member of the COHDS 2026/27 Scholar-in-Residence project and a Research Assistant on the SSHRC-funded project Theorizing the Craft of Studio Teaching, led by Dr. David LeRue. She is also Head TA for the Community Arts Division of Concordia’s Department of Art Education and holds a Quebec teaching brevet as an Arts Specialist. Her performance based sculptural installation practice explores how site specific work can help mend familial histories of trauma. She has completed site specific works in Bogotá, Colombia and Morelia, Mexico, including participation in the Festival Internacional de la Imagen. 

A settler raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley, on Yokuts and Mono lands, Kelly Day was born with an Irish surname from her father’s stolen identity, which hid her French Canadian heritage, a lineage rooted in the colonization of this land. Living on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory and pursuing citizenship through that lineage, she holds this return as a responsibility to unlearn the colonial histories she is part of.