Profession / role:

Educator/ Artist/ Designer

Company / organisation:

Pratt Institute/ Fashion Institute of Technology

Website (if you have one):

www.rachel-miller.com

My primary role in relation to fashion is:

Designer

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About me / About business or organisation:

Rachel Miller is an artist and educator, whoe work focuses on environmental patterns and how they interconnect with our own patterns of growth, departure, and rejuvenation. Using both the body and landscape as cynosure and subject, she coalesces topics from ritual, archeology, architecture, travel, textiles, and nature. Her works, which include sculpture, installation, performance and costume, examine the constant resurfacing of the past, and its integration with the present.

Concurrent with her studio practice, Miller designs sets, costumes, and textiles both independently and for films, theatre, and dance. Her work has been featured in several theatres and exhibitions, including Teatro Avvaloranti, Citta della Pieve, Italy; Teatro Mancinelli, Oriveto, Italy; Museum of Arts and Design, NYC; PS 122, New York; Newark Museum, NJ; Rosalie Borowsky Gallery, PA; and the Cranbrook Museum of Art, MI. She teaches and lectures at various institutions, including coursework in Textiles and Sustainable Design in the Fashion Department at Pratt Institute, NY; Sustainable Design Entrepreneurs program at FIT in New York, and has taught in the Fiber Department at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has also worked in India, where she has done extensive research, in addition to teaching textile design / fibers to university students. Additional experience includes teaching coursework at the Tyler School of Art / Temple University, Museum of Arts and Design, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Miller's work has been published, commissioned, and reviewed internationally, and is included in both public and private collections.

Career history / Company history:

Educator: Pratt Institute, Fashion Institute of Technology, Penland School of Crafts, University of the Arts, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum,
Resident Artist: Museum of Arts and Design.
Publications: Museum of Arts and Design, Hand/ Eye Magazine.