Alecia Miller

For as long as I can remember, I have always been a creative person; expressing myself through drawing, writing, and other artistic endeavors. I graduated from Drexel University with a degree in Fashion Design, although I knew that was not the career path I really wanted to pursue. My creative journey led me to ceramics. I took many classes at Chester Springs Studio as well as continuing my formal education with the ceramics program at Kutztown University.  From 2001 to 2005 I ran Nepenthe Pottery while we lived mid-state and had an onsite studio. My work was heavily influenced by forms found in nature, and the connection to the pieces that one receives when cradling a vessel in your hands. Over time, my work began to take on intricate and detailed patterned carving which added to this experience. When we moved back to eastern PA, the space for a ceramics studio was lost, and my focus shifted back to writing, drawing, and painting.

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$175

Synapse, USA

Synapse, USA was an earlier piece, created in 2019. It was not a planned piece, but in searching through my old dictionaries for collage pages it struck me that Democracy and de-nazify were on the same page. With the political climate spawning protests and counter-protests, this page evolved into this little piece exploring the connections of these words and how these ideas jump across our consciousness and cause us to take action. The title plays on these connections as a synapse is a small space between two neurons where they communicate and transmit impulses.

$300

Red, White, and Boom

Red, White, and Boom was initially started in 2020 during the BLM protests following the George Floyd incident. I had a few colleagues that saw no reason for the rioting that happened, and had no understanding of the rage felt by the black community regarding systemic racism. As JFK said "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." I took to my sketchbook and this strong black woman emerged, patriotic, but pissed off. She finally made it out of my sketchbook and into her own painting when Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022. This is a patriotic piece, I love my country, but it is also a protest piece as we have a fight in front of us to get the country back on track.