Sequoia Miller

Biography to Display:

Born New York, New York

EDUCATION

1989 Russian Language Immersion, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

1990 Russian Art History, Language and Culture, Moscow State Pedagogical University,Moscow, USSR

1992 BA Russian Cultural Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

1993 Parsons School of Design, New York, New York

1995, 1999 Haystack Mountain Schoolof Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine

1994, 1995 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina

1997 Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana

2008 Interdisciplinary Art, Goddard College

2013 MA Decorative Arts and Design History, Bard Graduate Center, New York, New York

2018 PhD History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1995-2010 Studio potter

1997 Technical Assistant for Michael Simon, Chris Staley, Linda Christenson, and NickJoerling

2018- Chief Curator, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada

BIOGRAPHY

Sequoia Miller produced a range of stoneware functional forms that were either thrown and radically altered or slab built. He used minimal color, typically black and dark green often with unglazed areas providing contrast. Most pieces were fired in a gas kiln with some pieces fired in a wood kiln. Miller approached his work with a high level of curiosity and academic prowess. About his work as a potter he has said, “I’m attracted to the idea of practice--attentive repetition toward something small as a way to understand something universal.” When considering why customers buy a pot he says, “they buy the exploration, of which the pot is an artifact.” Miller left the pottery studio to pursue an academic route that led him to earn a PhD from Yale University in 2018. In 2018 he became the Chief Curator at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto,Canada

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Public Collections to Display:

Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda

Jones Museum of Clay & Glass, Sebago, Maine

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisana

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Scripps College, Claremont, California

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography to Display:

Anders, T.K. “In Depth with Sequoia Miller.” Clay Times, September/October 2004.

Cormeny, Sara. “Sequoia Miller, Profile.” Ceramics Monthly , November 2000.

Miller, Sequoia and John Stuart Gordon.The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015.

Up Front. “SequoiaMiller.” Ceramics Monthly, January 2003.

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