Kelly "Sky" Reed is a multidisciplinary artist, tensile fabric designer, and design/build specialist whose approach to membrane architecture is shaped by decades s of hands-on structural delivery and a lifetime across kinetic art, music, and performance spaces. Rather than viewing tension structures strictly through static engineering, he treats lightweight membranes as living, responsive systems—informed by deep roots in professional kite design, fine art sculpting, lighting enthusiast, and live stage environments.

His background as a professional kite designer and flier grounds his technical intuition in aerodynamics, real-world wind loading, and precision catenary dynamics: understanding how flexible materials move, breathe, and stabilize under fluid atmospheric forces. As a sculptor and musician performing within immersive live settings, Sky approaches space shaping through a sensory lens—considering how light, acoustic resonance, geometric tension, and sightlines interact to transform an environment into an experience.

Over the years, Sky has bridged this creative ethos directly with rigorous field execution. Leading projects across the full lifecycle—from 3D conceptual modeling to specialized rigging and on-site build leadership—he delivers everything from large-scale festival and performance canopies to custom residential and commercial shade installations.

The result is a distinctly forward-thinking design/build practice: structures that inherently are more stable and next-level above your average shade company.  Sky melds kinetic elegance, artistic intention, and a rare sensitivity to how people gather beneath his canopies and the visual interest in sightlines to enhance the natural environment and direct the flow of both energy and people.