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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.

 

 

Typical Marks
Soy Bottle
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: Glaze
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Covered Jar
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: Glaze
E. John Bullard Collection
E. John Bullard Collection
Bowl
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Surface Technique: Glaze
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Vase
Date: ca 1985
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Dimensions: 15 1/2 in. h.
Surface Technique: Glaze
E. John Bullard Collection
E. John Bullard Collection
Slab Teapot with Woven Handle
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Slab-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze
Scripps College Collection, 2016.7.22
Photo: TMP
Scripps College Collection, 2016.7.22
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Covered Box
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Slab-Built, Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze
Scripps College Collection, 2016.7.24
Photo: TMP
Scripps College Collection, 2016.7.24
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Rectangular Covered Box
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Slab-Built, Hand-Built
Surface Technique: Glaze
Scripps College Collection, 2016.7.23
Photo: TMP
Scripps College Collection, 2016.7.23
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Citation: "The Marks Project." Last modified March 14, 2024. http://www.themarksproject.org:443/marks/miller-3