BECKY MILLER

Land based artist.

Graduate of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., (1985), B.S.

Graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design (2015), M.F.A. in Painting

I live and work in North Georgia as an artist, educator and gallery director at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the larger Appalachian Mountain Range. My studio practice and work has been shaped by the agrarian landscape of the American South I know and remember as subject, site and material. My new work began with a 5 gallon bucket of dirt taken from 7 acres of land in Pike Road, Alabama. The dirt begat two large paintings, artifacts I carry with me from this place.

“I consider land to be an archive of its own history and am interested in place and our connection to it as human beings. I construct artifacts to document, preserve, and perpetuate human story with the hope that we will ‘remember the future’.

  • 2019-

    Art Gallery Director and Curator, Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA

    • Allen Peterson, Coevolution, 2019

    • Cynthia Wagner & Darcy Jones, On the Edge of Magic, 2019

    • GAEA Layers, Fall Conference, 2019

    • YHC, ART & DESIGN, Faculty Exhibit, 2019

    • Alberto Mier, Deep Dive, 2019

    • Jerry Siegel, REVEAL, 2020

    • YHC, Student Juried Art Show, 2020

    • YHC, Virtual Senior Thesis Exhibition, 2020

    • Jennifer Moss, Marked: Rusted Woven, 2020

    • Camden Goddard, Genius Loci, 2020

    • Charles Atkins, Right Brain, Left Brain, Hole Brain, 2020

    • YHC, 2021 ART + DESIGN Department Faculty Exhibition, 2021

    • YHC, The Juried Student Art + Design Exhibition, 2021

    • YHC, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Still Standing, 2021

    • Jesus Minguez, Perserverance Study Under Fire’s Intensity, 2021

    • Danger Press, Ideas>Designs>Product, 2021

    • Madeline P Wagner, “She tried to be perfect, she failed, it is okay.”, 2021

    • Temi Coker, TEMI COKER, 2022

    • YHC Digital II Students, Mini Exhibit, Temi Coker Inspired Work, 2022

    • YHC, Art + Design Student Juried Exhibition, 2022

    • YHC Senior Thesis Exhibition, Adapt, Create, Overcome, 2022

    • Jamaal Barber, For All My Brothers Lost and Found, 2022

    • Clint Samples, Pastureland, 2022

    • Austin Watson, INTER-ACT, 2023

    • Becky Miller, P L A C E, 2023

    • YHC, Student Juried Art + Design Exhibition, 2023

    • YHC Senior Thesis Exhibition, Signing Off, 2023

    2019

    Speaker, GAEA Fall Conference, Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA

    • The Pop Up Gallery and Collaborative Studio: A Hands On Approach to Educate Students on Exhibition and Presenting Practices of Art Making

    2023

    Juror, Top of Georgia Plein Aire Festival 2023, Hamilton Gardens, Hiawassee, GA

    2022

    Juror, 2022 Southern Appalachian Artist Guild National Juried Show, Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association, Blue Ridge, GA

    2019

    Guest artist, Mountain Wine Country Festival, Crane Creek Vineyard, Young Harris, GA

    2018-2019

    Scenic Painter, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, AL

    • Annie

    • Menopause

    • Sound of Music

    2010- 2019

    Curator, Programs Director and Manager, 121 Pop Up Gallery and Collaborative Studio, Montgomery, AL

    • Shannon Bewley, approximate knowledge, Fall, 2017

    • 1:1 Mentor & Protége: Celebrating the Achievements of Auburn University Art Department Faculty and Undergraduate Student Pairings (with Christopher McNulty/Shannon Bewley; Allyson Comstock/Amy Briggs; Barb Bondy/Garrett Johnson; Chuck Hemard/Dekota Sumpter; Annie Campbell/Ashley Taylor; Andrew Kozlowski/Caroline Wheeler) Spring, 2017

    • Jennifer Moss, Emergent Geographies, Fall, 2016

    • Gerry Stecca, Specious Morphology, Fall, 2015

    • HS Student Group and Solo Exhibitions, Winter, 2010 - 2018

    • HS Senior Student Exhibition, Winter 2010 - 2018

    • HS Senior Student Exhibition, Spring 2010 - 2018

    • HS Senior Student Exhibition, Spring 2019

    2017-19

    Pop Up Gallery, Hampstead, Montgomery AL- 2017-2019

    • Becky Miller, Artifacts, Fall, 2017

    • Sara Pittman and Karla Reilly, Our Own Hymn, Fall, 2017

    • Caroline Ward-Sayre, A Carried Sense of Home, Winter 2018

  • 2020-present

    Adjunct Instructor of Art, Young Harris College, Young Harris, GA

    • Concept Studio, Open Studio, Professional Practice, Senior Thesis

    2018 - 19

    Adjunct Instructor of Art, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

    • Drawing

    Adjunct Instructor of Art, Huntington College, Montgomery, AL

    • Painting, 2D Design

    2016

    Instructor, SCAD Art Educator’s Forum, Savannah, GA

    The Pop-Up Gallery and Collaborative Studio:a Hands-on Approach to Educate Students on the Exhibiting/Presenting Aspects of Art Making

    2004-2019

    HS Visual Arts Instructor, Fine Arts Department Chair: Trinity School, Montgomery AL

    • Foundations Courses: Foundations I, Drawing and 2D Design; Foundations II, Painting; Foundations III, Sculpture/ Mixed Media; Advanced Art, Portfolio I, II; College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Studio Art, 2D, 3D and Drawing; Set Design, Set Construction; Special Topics Courses, Student Artist Exhibit Program, Fall 2005- 2019.

    • Visual Arts Curriculum Development and Vertical Teaming

    • SAIS Accreditation Committee Member

    • Apple Distinguished Educator

    • AP Workshops/Summer Institutes, Alabama

    2003-2004

    Visual Arts Instructor, Macon East Montgomery Academy, Pike Road, AL, 2003-2005

    • Foundations Courses grades 9-12, Art History 9-12

    • Visual Arts Exhibitions Coordinator, AISA, AL, 2004

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