Don Miller



BIO

Don Miller is a Philadelphia woodworker and educator. He holds a BA in German from the University of Kansas and an MFA in 3D Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He attended the London College of Furniture Early Stringed Instrument program. 

Miller retired as an Associate Professor in Craft+ Material Studies at the University of the Arts in 2020 and was previously a Lecturer in Furniture Design at Rhode Island School of Design. He has also taught classes at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass CO and Steneby Skolan, Dals Langed Sweden and served as visiting artist at San Diego State University, Herron School of Art and Design, N. Michigan University and The Malmsten School. He has been a resident artist at Steneby and Dong A University in Busan, South Korea; Vermont Studio Center; Haystack School and Monson Arts.

Miller's work has been shown in national and international venues. He maintains a studio/workshop in northwest Philadelphia.


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ARTIST STATEMENT

My studio work has developed in fit and starts subject to opportunities and accidents, successes and failures, ambitions and resignations. The desire to examine and refine several related but discreet interests and motivations has led to distinct bodies of work that circumscribe an, as of yet, unexpressed goal. The meaning and value of this work is intrinsic, based in my subjective experience of making and a slowly developing phenomenal relationship with the outcome. 

Choosing to work with specific historical furniture idioms has been compelled by a commitment to restraints of process and material, a culture of making that reflects the evolution of a broader world. The domestic space offers specific opportunities to create nuanced meaning and value, communicated via the senses and the verge of personal/cultural memory. Domestic familiarity, simple geometry and repetition of formal elements frame the emptiness that emerges as the focus of the work. My aim is to refine and share an experience of interiority, a looking into and through, evoking an intersubjective relationship between the “object” and the viewing/using “subject.” Objects function like music; nonfigurative, nonverbal but tightly structured around an ephemeral core of silence.



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