Current Perspectives: Kelli Anderson
Date & Time
Nov. 12, 2026 @ 7 p.m.
Location
Epperson Auditorium | Vanderslice Hall | 4415 Warwick Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64111
Join us at the 糖心TV官网 for a lecture by . Kelli Anderson uses handheld revelations to reconnect people with the depth and possibility of their world. Her books force readers to touch grass paper. She created This Book is a Camera (MoMA)鈥攚hich transforms into a working camera鈥攁nd This Book is a Planetarium (Chronicle)鈥攚hich houses paper devices (including a planetarium) and has sold more than 100,000 copies. Alphabet in Motion, an interactive book about typography and technology was published to wide acclaim in the Fall of 2025. The Washington Post book editor writes that 鈥渢he work of literature that delighted me most this year is this pop-up book.鈥�

Other projects include a viral paper record player and鈥攚ith The Yes Men鈥攁 utopian counterfeited New York Times, which won the Ars Electronica Prix. Doctors without Borders have used the award-winning Tinybop Human Body app she illustrated to communicate illness and treatment nonverbally to their patients in remote areas. Clients include NPR, the New Yorker, the Guggenheim, MoMA, Apple, and the New York Times. She has been nominated for the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award twice and teaches at NYU, SVA, and Cooper Union.