Pat Miller is a self-taught visual artist living in Willimantic who creates box art, photographs, and cartoons. In work both serious and entertaining, she creates miniatures that allow her to indulge her fascination with tools and small things, using found objects along with a wide range of media, including wood, metal, fabric, acrylics, glass, paper, lights, photographs, mirrors, polymer clay, and model railroad scenery. Her landscape photographs reflect her interest in color and composition, while her animal photos, especially her series of frogs and chipmunks, convey some of the quirky sense of cynicism, unabashed silliness, and love of language.
Miller has exhibited her work with Quiet Corner Artists, The Windham Regional Arts Council, and the Windham Area Arts Collaborative, as well as at the Norwich ArtSpace Gallery. She has had one-woman shows in several local businesses, and at Quiet Corner Artists shows. She has received two juried First Prizes and four People's Choice Awards. Her works are in private collections across the United States as well as in England and Scotland. She earned a B.A. from the College of Wooster (OH) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Connecticut.
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