Mara Miller ARTIST RESUME

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PAINTINGS
Anti-Calligraphy
Bridal Series:
   Red Mandalas
Centrifugal/
   Equilibrium
Refrigerator Series:
   Flowery Meads
Growth Type IV
Landscapes
   of Fear

SCULPTURE &
MIXED MEDIA
Shaman's Wands/
   Sculpture

MEET THE ARTIST
Biography
Statement
Resume

SELECTED EMPLOYMENT

  • Independent Scholar, Consultant, Curator, Honolulu, 2008-2011
  • University of Canterbury (New Zealand) Visiting Fellow & Univ. of Oregon, Visiting Professor, 2007-08
  • Moore College of Art, Visiting Associate Prof. 2003-2004, Adjunct Prof. 2004-07
  • Colorado College Visiting Professor 2005
  • Stockton College of New Jersey, Visiting Professor, 2004-5
  • College of Media Arts & Design (Drexel Univ.) & University of the Arts, Adjunct Professor, 2002-3
  • Temple University & Muhlenberg College, Adjunct Professor, Spring 2002
  • Colorado College, Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2000
  • Agnes Scott College, Kirk Visiting Professor, Spring, 1999
  • U S WEST !nterprise, Web Content Editor & Graphics Designer, Fall 1988
  • Emory University, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, 9/96-8/98
  • Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Consultant on Asian Art, 1997-99
  • Kwassui Junior College for Women, Nagasaki, Japan, Instructor, 1976-77

EDUCATION

  • Studied painting & Japanese calligraphy in Japan & at Cornell University & Naropa Institute (Boulder, CO)
  • PhD, Yale University, December 1987, Philosophy
  • MA, University of Michigan, 1976, Japanese Studies/Art History
  • BA, Cornell Univ., 1973, College Scholar: Visual & Linguistic Symbol Systems of Asia

ARTIST'S RESIDENCY: Global Arts Village, New Delhi, India, 2006

EXHIBITIONS (2003-2006 are in Philadelphia unless otherwise noted)

New York City, 2002: Walter Wickiser Gallery, Soho:2 works in group show, March
2011
  • Punahou Carnival Art Gallery, juried show, February
2010
  • Rosemal Painting for Set of Ibsen's Ghosts at TAG (The Actors' Group), Honolulu, October
  • 4 paintings invited for publication in the Polish philosophy journal Sztuka i Filozofiia, published by the University of Warsaw's Institute of Philosophy
  • 7 paintings put on permanent display in the University of Hawaii's Hamilton Library, a gift of the Alumni Group of the university's Library & Information Science Program
2006
  • Philadelphia Open Studios Tour (POST), October
  • 3 Women Artists in conjunction with New Light Series of plays by women, Shubin Theatre, May
2005
  • Fringe Festival Art Exhibit, with Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) of Philadelphia, September
  • Philadelphia Open Studios Tour (POST), October
  • Plastic Club New Members' Show, September
  • Plastic Club: Members' Show, May
  • Plastic Club: "Water, Water, Everywhere" Show, March
  • Plastic Club Small Works Show: Shaman’s Wands, February
  • Highwire Gallery, March-April
2004
  • Moore College of Art and Design Faculty Show, September-October
  • Zonk Arts, September-October
  • Perkins Center for the Arts (N.J.) Watercolor Show: "After 9/11," May
  • Plastic Club, Philadelphia: 2 Self-Portraits, May
  • Phillips Gallery, Franklin & Marshall College: Invading Spaces: Sexual Violence Against Women, April (9 works)
  • Philadelphia Sketch Club: Small Works Group Show. ‘Only the Moon Is Here.’ March-April 2004
2003
  • University of the Arts: Solo show: "Centrifugal/Equilibrium," February-May
  • Moore College of Art & Design. Group Show Out of the Box: ‘Box of Broken Dreams,’ November
  • Women’s Caucus for Art of Greater Washington, D.C. & the City of Greenbelt, MD, May
  • Artists' Book: Dunhuang Dreams’, in Who We Are, Collective Artists’ Book by WCAPhila, shown: "Philly Women/Philly Books," Stedman Gallery, Rutgers-Camden University, Apr '05; Permanent Collection, Stedman Arts Library, Dartmouth College; Int'l Book Arts Fair, Seoul, South Korea, May '05; Bookmobile/Mobilivre Project, North American tour 2004

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

  • Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Emory University
  • Travel to Korea, Asian Studies Development Program/ Korea Foundation, East-West Center
  • The Folger Institute: Seminar in the Theory of Art History, 1996
  • NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship, Japanese Philosophy, Ohio State University
  • Research Fellow, International Society for 18th-century Studies, Paris
  • Professional Assoc., Self & Symbolic Expression Conference. Institute for Culture & Communication, East-West Center
  • NDFL Fellowships in Japanese

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • The Garden as an Art, State University of New York Press, 1993
  • Over 45 articles on aesthetics, Asian art history, gardens, feminism & women's studies, and selfhood & personal identity

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Last update: January 29, 2011