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Maggi Miller earned a BFA in Art Education at the University of Texas, Arlington, to learn how to teach art and art history to high school students. However, as a result of a stint in VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), she changed course to earn a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction and became a reading specialist and teacher educator rather than an art teacher. It was a rewarding switch she never regretted.

However, her interest in art remained. She painted and drew and eventually became curious about the process of papermaking That led her to take a class with internationally renowned paper artist Priscilla Robinson. The experience revived her enthusiasm about the elements of art, especially color and texture. She saw her first stack of paper as an exciting medium for creating pictures without using a pencil or paintbrush.

Once she retired from education, she returned with vigor and enthusiasm to working on her art.

Maggi has studied papermaking with Helen Heibert, in classes at Columbia College in Chicago, and at Southwest School of Art & Craft. She has shown her work in venues ranging from Austin’s Hyde Park Bar & Grill to galleries in Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Ohio. Her work has been recognized with a Merit Award by the Texas Visual Arts Association, an Honorable Mention in the Austin Art Boards competition, and two awards from the National Collage Society. She wrote and illustrated a children’s book, The Baby Who Wouldn’t Say Mama, and her pictures have been included in a collection of literary essays, Awakened by Surprise, by Robert Bonazzi.

www.maggimiller.com/

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