Firmly behind the times and here to say:
check out my instagram! www.instagram.com/rebeccasimonmiller/

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at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Friday, 2/19 5-9pm
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Philadelphia
This event also marks the rough 6 year anniversary of this website!

I have 4 new pieces at this extended group show at
Rodger LaPelle Gallery
122 N. 3rd St.
Phila. PA
through February 2016

benefiting Safe Harbor of Chester County and the Chester County Art Association
a show of 50 artists, including a silent auction
This year will be 3/18 6-10pm, and 3/19 10am-3pm
1100 Country Club Rd
West Chester, PA

FrameWorks Studio & Gallery
2103 Walnut Street
Phila. PA

I have 5 paintings in this group show
Opening: 12/12 5-8pm
Show open: 12/12- 2/28

Rodger LaPelle Gallery
122 N. 3rd St.
Phila. PA

I have a piece in this large group show
Opening Reception: 11/6 5-9pm

due to the constant explanations required of 'rebeccamaking.com'
our URL is now: rebeccasimonmiller.com

This exhibit showcases work from the past decade of town garden tours, which is an annual tradition benefiting the horticulture therapy program at Barclay Friends.
Typically, artists are assigned a garden in which to work during the course of the tour. This exhibit is the first chance to look at work created on and inspired by the tour, outside of the garden space.
Church Street Gallery
12 South Church Street
West Chester, PA
9/1-4
Reception: 9/2 5-9pm

Now pleased to announce that I have returned to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as an
Alumni Studio Fellow
This is following the untimely closure of the 915 Spring Garden studio building, where I had been located the past more than five years.
I will miss its extremely convenient location, high ceilings, enormous windows, and long history (hi hallway-mates Janell and Peter !). I will not miss its pests and terrible insulation.
My new PAFA studio is exactly one floor above my previous one, from 2008-2010, and so looks identical in every way, which is somewhat strange. But it's neat to be around so many students making work again (and to see Scott Noel painting regularly in the foyer of my floor).

Getting some extra, outside of my teaching duties, mural-making experience this summer, as a part of the Independence Foundation Summer Internship Program!
It's a great schedule because I get to spend the morning as part of the artist crew, and then Assistant Teach on the same mural (81 panels! and designed by the too cool Kim Beck) in the afternoon when the students arrive.
As the person in charge of the class blog, I can direct you to some
in progress shots
views from Kim Beck's classroom visit
and
our finished mural!

I was asked, following my portrait painting demo during the "PAFA at Baldwin" exhibit, to lead a watercolor workshop at the Upper School Arts Day for the students at this prestigious Bryn Mawr school. We worked on still lifes and some experimental techniques. Watercolor seems both the ubiquitous and the forgotten paint medium.

I'm excited to be a part of the sixth annual incarnation of this event!
This showcase of 50 selected local artists benefits Safe Harbor of Chester County, and the Chester County Art Association (home of my first childhood nude figure drawing classes)
3/6-7
at the Radley Run Country Club

Santiago Galeas
Ben Gordon
me
Patrice Poor
Robert Stack
David Wilson
Nov 9 - Dec 18
The Residence Art Gallery
at The Baldwin School
Reception: Sunday, Dec 7 1-5 pm
(with painting demos by the group 1-3pm)
701 Montgomery Ave
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
This show is the product of a weekly portrait club, hosted by two of my Pafa classmates, Patrice Poor and David Wilson that's been going on since May 2013!

Carspecken Scott Gallery
1707 N. Lincoln St.
Wilmington, DE
me
Jonathan Schoff
Ryan Syrell
John Gibbons
Isobel Sollenberger
Reception: 6/6 5:30-7:30 pm
through July 31st
www.carspeckenscott.com/

Art Education Annual Exhibition
City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
*this one's not my work, but it IS the work of two classes I assistant teach*
Crane Arts Building
1400 N. American St.
Philadelphia
5/8-5/31
muralarts.org/event/really-awesome-art-…

5th annual show
benefiting Safe Harbor of Chester County
Radley Run Country Club
West Chester, PA
March 7 and 8

321 E. King St.
Malvern, PA
12/6-2/2
Receptions first Fridays and second Saturdays
www.jamgallerymalvern.com/

Pile of Bricks
2537 Frankford Ave
Phila. PA
Reception: 11/15 6-10pm
through 11/29

"works in this exhibition depict a relationship; to the land we stand on, the water which surrounds + the sky above .
work by jen brown, ross brubeck, lindsay carone, linda cope, suzanne delaney, laura finestone, sarah finestone, jessica gatlin, jesse gorham engaard, melodie greenblatt, jay haon, mike landers, zya levy, hannah miller, rebecca miller, samantha mitchell, kaitlin pomerantz, gideon rettich, dewey saunders, amalia wilson."

FrameWorks Gallery
2103 Walnut St, Phila.
9/8-10/27
Reception: 9/13 6-9pm

in the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Art Ed Dept.
This has also involved assisting on some mural projects
Check out all that this ambitious program does:muralarts.org/

4/26-5/12
11am-5pm daily (till 8pm Fridays)
Chester Springs, PA
Historic Yellow Springs

my book with Michael Bagwell
elalephpress.com/books.html

4th annual art show, benefiting
Safe Harbor of Chester County
Friday 3/8 6pm-10pm
Saturday 3/9 10am-3pm
with 50 local artists
1100 Country Club Road, West Chester, PA
safe harbor

curated by Heather Christle
Esther Raushenbush Library
Sarah Lawrence College
2/20-3/5
work included in association with Or Else They Are Trees

Michael Bagwell and I have expanded our collection of paired drawings and poems from the Spring 2011 issue of West Chester's Literati magazine into a chapbook of our own!
We've printed the first run through lulu.com, but the project has inspired Mike to get a press going, so you can see both our book, and the details of his printing press project here www.elalephpress.ecrater.com
you can also like us on fb if you get really into it!

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my web presence has been less than inconsistent this past year...
here's to a new start! and also,
UPCOMING
*10/20-21 Philadelphia Open Studio Tours
philaopenstudios.org/post/neighborhood/…
from noon - 6pm each day, STUDIO 116, at
915 Spring Garden, Phila PA
I will be there all Saturday, and for the first two hours Sunday -- though
at least one studiomate should be there throughout, so stop in!

*Unionville Art Gala 2012
11/9 6pm - 9pm, and 11/10 10am - 3pm
750 Unionville Rd, Kennett Sq PA

*Safe Harbor Art Show
3/8-9, 2013
Radley Run Country Club, West Chester PA

*40th Annual Yellow Springs Art Show
4/27-5/12, 2013
Chester Springs, PA

>>details to follow!

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will be running again!
after the Green Line show, WYWT was picked up by the
University City Arts League
and will be on view in a new and expanded form
this November, 11/4-11/27
Opening reception: 11/11, 6pm-8pm
information: www.ucartsleague.org/exhibits/
and congratulations to curator Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz!

will be Saturday 11/12
10am-7pm
Unionville High School
750 Unionville Road
Kennett Sq. PA
support the school and see the work of Chadds Ford (area) artists

Barclay Friends' Festival of Gardens Tour
Sept. 10, 2011 10am-3pm
West Chester, PA
I'm participating for the 2nd year in this tour which pairs artists with gardens in the town of West Chester, to benefit the Horticulture Therapy program at Barclay Friends.
For tickets and information: bf.kendal.org/event/2015/06/02/secret-g…

Philadelphia artists thinking about the natural world...
WORK BY:
Rebecca Miller, Samantha Dylan Mitchell, Matthew Colaizzo, Sarah Finestone,
Michael Branca, Paul Richardson, Andrew Defrance, Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz
GREEN LINE CAFE
3649 Lancaster Ave.
AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011
Wish You Were There presents the work of eight Philadelphia-based artists grappling with ideas about the natural world. Featured works draw from a range of references-- from traditional landscape and still-life painting, to pop culture postcards and technicolor photographs, to scientific illustration and visual taxonomies, to more idiosyncratic, obsessive and personal visions. This grouping of work reveals the complexity of the urban dweller's relationship to real or imagined ideas of a geographical, ecological "other". Beyond mere escapist fantasy, Wish You Were There highlights the variety of ways that we experience, interpret, project ourselves onto and lose ourselves in "nature" or an amorphous, and often greener "beyond".
OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4th, 6-8pm
Light drinks/BYO!
Refreshing beet kvass by Powelton Village's own Food and Ferments!
Edible tidbits from Philadelphia's only sustainable grocery delivery service, Harvest Local Foods!
[announcement stolen from curator Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz]

Hong Kong Garden
N. Philip St. and Cecil B. Moore
Phila. PA
F June 3rd 7pm
music + art
bands:
HK; Old Scratch; Cool Moms; UANDI; Prime Homeless Time; and Scotty Leitch
(work hanging 6/3-7/22)

I'm participating in the rather unusual "chrysalis show":
Second Chance at Stardom...Painting Over Existing Art
5/15/11-6/26/11
Bookplace
2373 Baltimore Pike
Oxford, PA
hours:
F 1pm - 4pm
Sa 10am - 5pm
Su 12pm - 5pm
and by appointment
Curator T. Mark Cole collected artwork from thrift stores, and more, which he then assigned to new artists, with a challenge to make the forgotten pieces decent.
contact: 717.915.6418

Mound: Spring Garden 2 is temporarily residing at Adorn boutique's new location in Fishtown!
The piece was installed in time for the re-opening celebration last First Friday, May 6th.
It's always thrilling to see your work in a new context.
Visit my painting at
1314 Frankford Ave.
Phila.
Edit: Adorn is now Tribe Jewelry

I took part in another two day show -- this one to benefit Westtown School.
Friday April 15, 5-9pm
Saturday April 16, 10am-2pm
West Chester, PA

I'm excited to be included in the Spring 2011 issue of West Chester University's literary magazine -- purchasable and previewable here: www.lulu.com/product/paperback/literati…
Editor Michael Bagwell and I worked on a series of paired poetry and drawings, to form The Weed Cycle.
I also contributed the cover art.

at ART (that matters)
55 W. Main Street
Oyster Bay, NY
For this show of ten emerging artists, I'll be joining my former classmates from Alfred!
Opening: Thurs. March 3, 7-9pm
www.artthatmatters.com

benefitting Safe Harbor of Greater West Chester
March 18, 6pm-10pm
March 19, 10am-3pm
Radley Run Country Club
1100 Country Club Rd
West Chester, PA
This 2nd annual show of local artists supports a different local charity each year. Safe Harbor is "an independent, non-profit organization providing food, shelter, friendship, counseling and recovery opportunities for men and women in Chester County." www.safeharborofgwc.org/

I have a small painting of PAFA classmate, Lucia, in our Spring Garden studio in the LaPelle Gallery group show: On the Move.
January and February 2011
122 N. Third St.
Phila. PA
Wed-Sun 12pm - 6pm
www.rodgerlapellegalleries.com/

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Apologies for not posting until after the fact, but this past weekend (11/12-14) I participated in two large group shows:
* Art Gala 2010 in Unionville, PA -- a show which has grown quite a bit over its approximately 35 years, and now includes almost 100 artists from the community
* Philadelphia Art Salon on the Main Line -- a show of similar size, put together by "artist and innovator" Caryn Kunkle, who hosts a monthly salon for Philly artists

This weekend, October 9 and 10, come visit my studio as part of POST!
A great number of artists' studios east of Broad Street will be open from noon - 6pm for visitors both days, including mine -- which is listed as part of The Sleepwalkers' Collective (sleepwalkerscollective.blogspot.com).
I can be found at 915 Spring Garden (an enormous studio building with so many other stops on the tour, right there!), studio #116.
>This will also be the final weekend of the Boys Life show at Pterodactyl Creative Project Space -- which came together beautifully...

Three of my portraits from the year between undergrad and PAFA will be in this show, opening Friday (along with work from the chair of the program from which I just graduated, Dan Miller).
Reception: Sept. 10, 2010, 5-8pm
I think they're also doing a first (2nd) friday and open studio thing
Oxford Arts Alliance
38 S. Third Street
Oxford, PA
The show appears to run until the end of the month
>> Hey, so that makes three shows I'm in that are opening this weekend:
-Portraits, Oxford Art Alliance
-Drawn Attentions, Hopkins House Gallery (reception 9/26)
-Boys' Life, Pterodactyl Philadelphia
and also one demonstration/event:
-Barclay Friends' Festival of Gardens
and I believe it's the last weekend of the Selections show at PAFA...

I, as part of the Boys Life exhibition, was mentioned on Joseph Lozano's art blog: joesartoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/08/go…
cool!
(also, nice work by Joe: www.josephlozano.net)

I will be in a curated show of recent drawings at the Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art
"Drawn Attentions"
Reception: Sunday, Sept. 26, 2-4pm
Hopkins House Gallery
250 South Park Drive
Collingswood, NJ
Contributing artists:
Scott Cooper
Peg Curtin
Katrina Funk
Scott Giblin
Lee Benedict Jones
Doron Langberg
Heidi Leitzke
Laura Luce
Rebecca Miller
Jay Noble
Lindsay Robbins

I will be part of the Barclay Friends' Festival of Gardens on September 11, 2010. This garden tour, which takes place in West Chester, PA, features artists working in private gardens. It benefits the Barclay Friends Horticulture Therapy Program.
Saturday, 9/11/10, 10am - 3pm

I will be in a curated show with three PAFA alumni (and one other artist) at Pterodactyl Creative Project Space.
Zach Martin and Sarah Jackson Moore summed it up in their proposal:
"This exhibit will explore youth and nature through the guise of Boy’s
Life Magazine. The Boy Scouts of America, the distributors of this
publication, have long been a leading shaper of the masculine youth in
this country. Specifically, our interest lies behind the conditioning
of adolescent white heterosexual boys and their connection to the
natural world in which they learn."
Boys Life Show
Pterodactyl Creative Project Space
3237 Amber St. Box 3 Fifth Floor North
Philadelphia, PA 19134
OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, September 11 8pm-12am
Music by Crills Wilson, Born Pilot, Kill You in the Face
CLOSING RECEPTION:
Saturday, October 2 8pm-12am

I am in the midst of moving to a new studio space with 7 fellow PAFA grads (spread out over 2 rooms), in the large studio building at 915 Spring Garden.
I'm excited to finally have windows! (but a little anxious about giving up the cocoon-like space I've been working in)
We just registered for POST (Philadelphia Open Studio Tours) as The Sleepwalkers Collective, so come check us out on the tour October 9 and 10, 2010 or contact me to schedule an individual studio visit.

I was chosen for "Selections from the 109th Annual Student Exhibition" - a self-explanatory show - which means I'll have a piece loaned to the PAFA museum through September 12th

to: you
for: my MFA Thesis Exhibition
what else: the 109th Annual Student Exhibition at PAFA
where: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
128 N. Broad St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19102
when: opening reception (free): 5/14/10, 5-8:30pm
exhibition continues (with tickets to PAFA museum): 5/15-6/6 (closed Mondays)

I have a painting in the 6th Annual Juried Art Show: Drawn from Nature
at the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove.
Go just to check out the park around it! It's especially beautiful right now!
The Audubon Center's also right next to Valley Forge Park.
Reception: 4/16 5-8pm
1201 Pawlings Rd, Audubon PA 19403

I was awarded Second Prize at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, and Honorable Mention at the Plastic Club receptions yesterday, 4/11/10 (see below for exhibition information).

I will have a portrait in the show for Continuing Ed students at Gallery 128.
(I took Advanced Portrait Painting over the summer)
Reception: Continuing Education Student Exhibition
Friday April 9, 4-6pm
128 N. Broad St., Philadelphia PA

I'll be showing work, along with many of my graduating classmates from PAFA, at the Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, as part of their juried "PAFA Graduate Program Exhibition."
Reception: Saturday, May 22, 5-7pm.
with gallery talk
120 Long Beach Blvd
Loveladies, NJ

* I will have a painting in the "147th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings" at the Philadelphia Sketch Club.
Juror Jon Redmond is one of my favorite local painters.
Reception: Sunday April 11, 2-4pm
235 S. Camac Street, Phila.
* I will also have two pieces in "Black and White" at The Plastic Club.
Reception: Sunday April 11, 2-5pm
247 S. Camac Street, Phila.

I will have work in the Dragonfly Forest Art Show, which benefits an organization which provides overnight camp experiences to children with serious disorders and illnesses.
Fri 3/05 6pm-10pm and Sat 3/06 10am-3pm
Radley Run Country Club
1100 Country Club Rd, West Chester, PA

Open Studio Night at PAFA has been postponed till Friday, February 19th -- same time, still come!

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where I am doing my graduate work, is hosting an Open Studio Night, this Friday Feb. 12th, 5:30-8pm. This is a chance to see the studios and artwork of many PAFA students -- 128 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19102

Rebecca is in the final semester of her MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. (Feb. 2010)