Maryann L. Miller

MaryAnn Miller is a visual artist, book illustrator, poet, and educator based in Clinton, New Jersey. Miller began her career as a collage artist before transitioning to printmaking and book arts. Her compositions are unburdened by representational desires but contain lines, shapes, and connections guided by “mental feng shui.” Much of Miller’s earlier work is inspired by the human body, connected and flowing with our environment. Lately, her work is grounded in her encounters with various creative materials and the arrangements they guide her towards, like a jigsaw puzzle without a singular solution.  

“My printmaking process has evolved into creating these unique compositions that employ monotype, serigraphy, pochoir (stencil), stamping, and collage. This evolution has allowed me to expand my visual vocabulary into a broad supply of shapes, lines, and colors. I am greatly influenced by Mark Rothko, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Helen Frankenthaler, and Cy Twombly. I work on several pieces at a time, building a series that reads together like lines in a visual poem. Art in the Time of Savages is about the insistence on making art against a barbaric political backdrop when the true savages in our societies have been revealed.” - Maryann L. Miller

Miller holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education, a Master of Education in School Counseling, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She did a Post-Grad semester at Vermont College of Fine Arts with the poet David Wojahn. She has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Universidad Metropolitana Autonomia, Mexico City, University of Costa Rica, and the Ragdale Foundation. 

She was the resident book artist at the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College, working for Raven’s founder Curlee Raven Holton from 2001 to 2016. Her artist books are in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Special Collections at Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore, University of Iowa, Herron Art Library, Wesleyan University, Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Rutgers University, Yale, and Stanford University.