Maggie Mills received her BFA from Tyler School of Art and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has been adjunct faculty at Temple University and University of the Arts and is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Cedar Crest College. She is a member of Grizzly Grizzly Gallery. Mills is president of the board of Brush With the Law, a program that uses public art projects as an aid for re-entry after incarceration. Mills was awarded the Center for Emerging Visual Artists’ Career Development Fellowship, is a Fleisher Wind Challenge winner, was an NPN/VAN finalist, and was and inaugural member of the Landlab residency through the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. She has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions regionally. Her work addresses the effects that climate change and the exploitation of nature and animals have on our contemporary spaces and the legacy that we leave to subsequent generations through these spaces.
Statement
Climate change, sprawl, and the exploitation of natural resources and animals are modern plagues that define our environment. Decisions made by adults affect the places where children play, learn, and develop into future architects of this environment. Technology fragments and flattens time and space in both our digital and physical worlds. Young people navigate these inherited, hybrid spaces with little guidance.
In my work, children and animals are observers, victims, and masters of this world.
