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J N Miller, M.F.A. born 1979

EDUCATION

2006-2010 Master of Fine Arts, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2001-2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

SELECT COMMISSIONS

2015

Multilayer Space Scene: Mural at Overton Square in collaboration with Louis Loeb VP, Loeb Properties, Memphis, TN

2012-2014

The Gaisman Mural

RFQ Inaugural District Mural Commission, Dist. 5

The Urban Arts Commission, On Behalf of the City of Memphis

Gaisman Community Center. 4221 Macon Memphis, TN 38122

2013

Memphis Flyer Box

(Miller was commissioned by The Memphis Flyer to design and execute an original concept to be exhibition within the City of Memphis as a functional artwork. Miller created original photographic based imagery and then translated it into the final three-dimensional art object.)

Jason N Miller 901.229.1041 [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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2010

Energy Meets Wisdom

Pigment Ink On Canvas Stretched Over Panel, 13ft X 9ft

7th Floor, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital 50 N. Dunlap Street, Memphis, Tennessee 38103

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS [noted if two person]

The Long Phone Series: An Extended Conversation (upcoming)

2015

Sacred Vessels, surreal nebulous portraits by J. N. Miller, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

What I Kept [two person exhibition] curated by Penny Karwacz, photographs by Jason N. Miller Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2014

Artifact of a Relationship, The Sun (The Jonesboro Sun), Jonesboro, AR

To and From: A Collaborative Collection of Love Notes+ Artifact of a Relationship Vol. 1, Scottish Rite Cathedral of Memphis, TN

2011

Corporatism: The New Religion, Playhouse on the Square, Memphis, TN

Upon Changing Form: New Work by Jason Miller, Lambuth Liberal Arts College, Jackson, TN

Selections from Corporate Decay, Curated by Robert Hollingsworth, Memphis, TN

2010

Poetic Visions: It’s All Inside, [two person exhibition] Collaboration with Lauren Coulson, Material Art Space, Memphis, TN



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National Security VS. Personal Freedom, (ACLU) American Civil Liberties Union, Corporate Decay Series Featured in National Film Advertising Campaign, Newark, NJ

Ettevõtte Decay, Energy Gallery, 552 S. Main, Memphis, TN

Zoogalocka’s Palace Maze, Marshall Arts Billboard Installation, Memphis, TN

The Secret Signs and Symbols of Freephotography, Global Online Solo Exhibition and Print Publication

Energy Fortress of Solitary Meditation, M.F.A. Thesis, ArtLab, Art Museum of University of Memphis, TN

2009

Aloha from Hawaii: 5 Stations of a Vietnam Vet, Jack Robinson Gallery, Memphis, TN

Selected Works of Jason Miller, AK-47 Gallery, University of Memphis South Campus, TN

New Work by SOULRECORDER, Brinkley Plaza, Memphis TN

2004

Visions From a Dairy Cooler, Gallery 203, Fine Art Communication Building, University of Memphis, TN

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014

Number Presents: Art of the South, juror Alice Gray Stites, Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

56th Annual Delta Exhibition juried by Brian Rutenberg, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

The Cigar Box Show curated by Fletcher Golden, Glitch Gallery, Memphis, TN

Cooper Young Invitational, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN

Wizard Institution of Contemporary Arts, Nordic International Mail Art BiennaleOslo, Norway



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Focus Latin America: Art is Our Last Hope, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Party of Five, Glitch Gallery, Memphis, TN

2013

Unicorn Show, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN

Hanging Participles, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN

2012

Group Exhibition, Birdhouse Gallery, Memphis, TN

Art of Science, Artwork titled The Structure of Time, Multimedia Installation, Johnston Gallery of the Hyde Gallery, Nesin Graduate School of Memphis College of Art

New Talent, Group Exhibition, Gallery Fifty-Six, Memphis, TN

2011

Art Prize (City Wide Internationally Competitive Group Exhibition), Grand Rapids, MI

Price Is Right (Group Exhibition), David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN

Cooper Young Art Invitational, David Perry Smith Gallery, Memphis, TN

Memphis College of Art Bazaar (Group Exhibition), The Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

Some Art: The Final Chapter (Group Exhibition), Gallery 517 South Main, Memphis, TN

Some Art Part 3 (Group Exhibition), Gallery 517 South Main, Memphis, TN

Some Art Part 2 (Group Exhibition), Gallery 517 South Main, Memphis, TN

CMYK 2 (Featured Artist of Group Exhibition) Hi-Tone, Memphis, TN

The Billboard Art Project (Group Exhibition), Savannah, Ga



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28th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Don Gregorio, Art Museum of University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2010

53rd Annual Delta Exhibition, Juror Meredith Ward, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Art Prize, Selected by Nick Antonakis, Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, MI

Choice: Life Over Aids, Group Exhibition, Caritas Village, Memphis, TN

Strange Configurations, Juried Group Exhibition, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY

23rd Annual McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition, Juror Peter Frank, Abercrombie Gallery, Lake Charles, LA

27th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Jurors Robert J. Sanchez and Emiko René Lewis-Sanchez, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

On Location: Memphis International Film Festival, Fundraiser Art Auction, Marshall Arts, 639 Marshall Ave, Memphis, TN

Revolutionary Runway, Group Exhibition, Hollywood Disco, Memphis, TN

2009

The Sex Issue, Group Exhibition, Projekt30, New York, NY

Phantasmagoria, Concept Gallery, Memphis, TN

Opera Memphis Gala, Group Exhibition, Memphis, TN

Group Exhibition, Odessa Gallery, Memphis, TN

26th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Lois Renner, Art Museum of University of Memphis

2008

51st Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR



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Group Exhibition, Memphis Theological Seminary, Memphis,TN

Donation Exhibition, WKNO, Memphis, TN

Charles Powell Community Photography Project, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

Group Exhibition, Lulalyn Gallery, Memphis, TN

25th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Chakaia Booker, AMUM, Memphis, TN

Hooks Bros. Image Restoration Exhibition, (In collaboration with Dr. Ernestine Jenkins) Jones Hall Gallery, University of Memphis, TN

2007

Memphis River Arts Fest Juried Exhibition, Historic Train Station, Memphis, TN

24th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Gail Roberts, AMUM, Memphis, TN

Group Exhibition, Ravine Restaurant, Oxford, MS

2006

23rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Beauvais Lyons, AMUM, Memphis, TN

Highly Favored Contemporary Images of Virgin Mary, Juror Fr. Terrence E. Dempsey (Director of Museum of Contemporary Religious Art at St. Louis University), Christians In Visual Arts (C.I.V.A.) Juried 2 Year Traveling Exhibition:

Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 409 Prospect St., New Haven, CT

University of Dayton, 300 College Park Dayton, OH

Carroll College, 1601 North Benton Ave, Helena, MT

Gordon College, 255 Grapevine Road, Wenham, MA

2005

22nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Charles Reeve, AMUM, Memphis, TN



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2004

21st Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Dr. Ellen “Nan” Plummer, AMUM, Memphis, TN

2003

20th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Peter Schjedahl, AMUM, Memphis, TN

SELECTED AWARDS

2014

Stigmart Biennial Edition VIDEOFOCUS (international survey of video artists)

Number Present Art of the South Selected by juror Alice Grey Stites for inclusion in this survey exhibition that incuded 21 works by eighteen artists selected from the Southern United States, exhibition was held at The Martha and Robert Folgelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, Memphis, TN

56th Annual Delta Exhibition selected by juror Brian Rutenberg from a pool of over 1200 artists to become one of the 50 artists featured in the survey exhibition at Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Studio Visit Magazine Selected by juror Carl Belz to be featured in a multipage spread in the 2014 Winter Edition of Studio Visit Magazine

2013

Art Photographer Index of Photo Eye Gallery, inclusion of Dairy Diary Series, Santa Fe, NM

2012

100 most important visual artists in the South by The Oxford American, The Visual South 100 Under 100, Issue 76.

2012

PHOTOBISTRO inclusion of Dairy Diary Series, selected by jury panel of Photo Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM



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2011

Overture Magazine Artist of the Week Award, October 17th- 23rd (International Online Solo Exhibition)

2011

Purchase Award, 28th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Don Gregorio, Art Museum of University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2010

Best of Photography Award, 27th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Jurors Robert J. Sanchez and Emiko René Lewis-Sanchez, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2008

Best of Photography Award, 25th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Juror Chakaia Booker, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2008

Finalist (Top 200 of 4000), 28th Annual Photographer’s Forum, Photography Contest, International

2007

Full Teaching Assistantship, The University of Memphis MFA Program, Memphis, TN

2004

Image Purchase Award by William Thomas Thompson

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2015 Circuitous Succession Gallery focused articles from Memphis Flyer and Commercial Appeal

2014 Temple of Art, Chris Davis, Memphis Flyer

2014 Imagination is the One Mansion We All Can Afford: Poems, Drawings, and paintings from 1995-2014, Author Jason N Miller with foreword by Sarah Arvio



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2014 Stigmart Biennial Edition VIDEOFOCUS, 2014

2014 Studio Visit Magazine, Winter 2014 Edition, juror Carl Belz

2014 Memphis Flyer, Jason Miller’s New Mural at the Gaisman Community Center, review by Eileen Townsend

2014 Memphis Flyer, July 3-9, featured image, Self-Fastened to the Duct Tape Cross, sculpture by Jason Miller featured in Number Presents: Artists of the South, page 37

2014 Memphis Flyer, February 13-19, featured image, Totally Into Each Other, sculpture by Jason Miller featured in To and From solo exhibition at Scottish Rite Cathedral of Memphis, page 39

2013 John Weeden interview with Jason Miller about Circuitous Succession

2013: The most interesting year for local art in more than a quarter-century by Fredric Koeppel (read online here)

2013 Art Photographer Index of Photo Eye Gallery, inclusion of Dairy Diary Series, Santa Fe, NM

2013 Photo+ Contemporary Photography Magazine, Seoul Korea, Vol.35, Pages 46-51

2013 ‘Present Tense’ has stunning moments, surprising omissions, Gomemphis, Commercial Appeal, February 14, 2013

2012 The Oxford American, The Visual South Issue, (100 Under 100) The New 100 Superstars of Southern Art, Issue 76 (view the article online here, Jason Miller is number 64)

2012 The Thirty-Seven Degrees of Freephotography, author Jason N Miller

2011 Memphis Business Journal, Sacred Vessels Image.

2011 May 27, Commercial Appeal: Go Memphis Section Page 10, Exhibit Takes a Swipe at Corporatism by Fredric Koeppel (read the review online here)

2006 Number Magazine: Issue 57, Page 11 Critical Review by Carol Knowles

2009 Memphis Flyer, Page 34: Article Tough Times by Carol Knowles

2010 Iconoclasm In Reformation, author Jason N Miller

2010 Memphis Flyer, Page 34: Article Seen and Unseen by Carol Knowles



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2010 Direct Art Magazine: Volume 17, Page 76 (Featured Artwork)

2010 American Civil Liberties Union Film. Statue of Liberty with Surveillance Camera Image (Featured Photograph)

2009 Six Figural Hours, author Jason N Miller

PHILANTHROPIC

Jason Miller has aided the following Memphis based organizations through the donation of his art: Broad Avenue Arts District St. Jude Children's Research Center Orpheum Theatre Playhouse On the Square Hope House Urban Art Commission WKNO

SELECT COMMENTS

Select Comments about Jason Miller from important members of the national and international art community:

Foreword about Jason Miller’s paintings and drawings by renown poet Sarah Arvio, 2014

A curious, spidery creature dances or swims or floats through every one of these gorgeously obsessive paintings and drawings: a kind of flamingo octopus or a flaming sun or a long-finned fish. What is it? A kind of dancing alter ego? A figment of Miller¹s imagination living in imagination’s mansion. Obsession is often the way to artistic truth.

—Sarah Arvio, 2014

Excerpted from The Oxford American, Visual South Issue 76, March 2012

“The most prosaic things to write about Jason Miller are that he is a native of Memphis and earned his MFA in photography in 2010 at the University of Memphis. Those words will not prepare you to encounter either the man or his work. Jason Miller is a photographer, poet, philosopher, muralist, performance artist and multimedia visual impresario extraordinaire and force of nature. His work



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incorporates his own and appropriated layered and colliding images that critique and celebrate art, religion and contemporary life as it falls under his restless and cheerful scrutiny.”

—Leslie Luebbers, Director, Art Museum of the University of Memphis

Excerpted from Art Takes Swipe At Corporatism, Go Memphis: Commercial Appeal, May 27th, 2011

“The most terrifying work in the exhibition, perhaps because it is the simplest contrivance, is, again, the diptych called "Corporate Communion." In the panel on the right, a "businessman-priest," glowing eerily blue like a demon and surrounded by smoke, offers a communion wafer that is really the bright red and now ubiquitous Target logo. On the left side, a young woman, also glowing blue and with her hair spread behind her as if it were a bursting galaxy, takes the Target "eucharist" on her tongue and appears to gag and choke. No corporate names are necessary nor jangling maelstrom of pop culture images; here, less is far, far more.”

—Fredric Koeppel, Art Critic, Courtesy of The Commercial Appeal

Excerpted from the essay Remarks on Two of Jason Miller’s Photographs , 2009

“The spires of a gothic cathedral – St. Stephen’s in Vienna – are fading into oblivion in the background of a single picket of an iron fence, reminding us that those traceries of gothic masonry are actually intimidating, menacing, aggressive.”

—Till-Holger Borchert, Chief Curator Groeninge Museum and Arentshuis, Bruges

COLLABORATIVE WORKS

2013

Time Pools: Accessing the Aquifer, with League of Imaginary Scientists, the Digital Art Class I teach at University of Memphis, The Ground Water Institute of The University of Memphis, and Art Museum of University of Memphis, TN

2011

Memphis Heavyweight: Collaboration with Nick Cave, Art Museum at the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (On permanent view at the Soulsville Charter School, Stax, Memphis, TN)



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2009

African Americans in Memphis with Author Dr.Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins

2009

Cover-Up, Richard Alexander Lou, Memphis, TN

CURATORIAL

2015

CSE ll Circuitous Succession Epilogue ll, Masonic Contemporary at Memphis Scottish Rite, Memphis, TN

The Lotus Harvest, Sarah Ahmad, Master’s Gallery, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

Disco, Group Exhibition featuring Circuitous Succession Gallery represented artists, Memphis, TN

I din’t see that coming, Tommy Foster, Master’s Gallery, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

Elizabeth Garat & Anne J. Froning, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

Sacred Vessels, Jason N. Miller, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

African Travel Photography, Saj Crone, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

Transition Flux ll, Jeff Mickey, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

James Bockelman / Thomas Murray, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

Doomed to Repeat: paintings by Lawrence Matthews lll, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

Toile Landscapes, Shara Rowley Plough, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

Transition Flux: New Southern Vernacular Sculpture Work by Jeff Mickey, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN Experimental Relationship, Pixy Liao, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN

Musa, Juan Rojo, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN



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Dual Show Experience: Carl Moore, Masonic Contemporary, Scottish Rite, Memphis, TN

Investigations: Jeff Mickey and Jean Flint, Masonic Contemporary, Scottish Rite, Memphis, TN

2014

Circuitous Succession: Epilogue, Scottish Rite Cathedral, Memphis, TN

As a follow up group exhibition to the four month spanning 16 solo exhibitions Miller curated in the original series, Circuitous Succession: Epilogue features 57 artworks by 44 regional and national artists all within the four story alternative exhibition space of the Scottish Rite Cathedral of Memphis. Opening attendance was 350 visitors. The exhibition remained on view from October 10- November 10, 2014.

2013

Circuitous Succession: An Exhibition Series Curated by Jason Miller

Circuitous Succession was an exhibition series featuring sixteen Southern regional mid to advanced career artists particular to Memphis, TN. The series was held at Gasoline, an art gallery on Broad Avenue and spanned the inaugural opening exhibition featuring Jed Jackson, which took place July 19th thru the finale exhibition featuring Jan Hankins on November 22nd. Certain exhibitions in the series were held both at Gasoline and remote locations for venue expansion. The series was widely publicized in Memphis' two most notable publications, Commercial Appeal and Memphis Flyer.

As curator, Jason Miller played a proactive role in the process ranging from selection of works, installation, PR, branding, event planning, and general direction. View a full list of artists included in this series here.

2013

Aquifer Dreams

Gallery C, The Art Museum of the University of Memphis as part of Time Pools: Accessing the Aquifer, Memphis, TN

2011- 2013

Belmont Challenge (call to currently enrolled college-level academic artists)



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2010

Esse Aut Non Stdent Esse Discipulus: The Exhibition, Zoogalocka Gallery, Memphis, TN

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2015

Instructor Digital Art The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2014

Artist’s Link, lecture series, key lecturer, August 18th, Memphis, TN

2014


2013


2012

Instructor Art Studio Foundations 1 The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2012




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2011

Instructor Black and White Photo 1 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

2011

Instructor Black and White Photo 1 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

2011


2011

Instructor Digital Imaging, Print-making, Color Photo The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2011


2010


2010

Instructor



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Color Digital Photography and Printmaking The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2010

Instructor Color Digital Photography and Printmaking The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 2009

Instructor of Record Black and White Photography The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2007

Instructor of Record Intro To Black and White Photography The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2007

Teaching Assistant Intro To Black and White Photography The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

2012-Present

Poster Contest Organizer

Women's History Month Executive Committee, University of Memphis Center for Research on Women

2012-Present

ArtLab Selections Committee Chair, Art Museum of the University of Memphis

2010

Panel Member and Speaker



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Art Prize Panel Discussion, Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, MI

DIRECTORIAL EXPERIENCE

2015-Present

Voting Executive Board Member, Number: Inc. Board of Directors

2015-Present

Principal, Circuitous Succession Gallery, 500 South Second St. Memphis, TN 38103

2013-Present

Director of Visual Arts, Masonic Contemporary, Scottish Rite, Memphis, TN

2012- 2014

Commissioned Artist & Director of Gaisman Mural Project, Urban Arts Mural Commission, City of Memphis, TN

2010

Commissioned Artist & Project Director, Energy Meets Wisdom, Memphis, Urban Arts Commission for Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN

2009-2011

Project Coordinator, Workshop Leader

Periodical Intro to Advanced Mac, Epson 9800 Series Printer, Adobe Photoshop CS, Substrate Workshop Series, Soulrecorder Studios, Memphis, TN

2010

Project Creator, Director, and Workshop Leader



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Energy Meets Wisdom Workshop Series, River View Elementary School, Memphis, TN and MIFA Elderly Congregate Feeding Site, Bickford Community Center, Memphis, TN

COMMITTEE

2015-Present

Number: Inc. Board of Directors Outreach Committee

2012-Present

Women's History Month Executive Committee, University of Memphis Center for Research on Women

2012-Present

ArtLab Selections Committee Chair, Art Museum of the University of Memphis

2015-Present

Urban Art Commission - Advisory Committee [select projects]

2013-2015

University of Memphis Committee Member for undergraduate students Kevin Bowers (BFA, concentration in sculpture and painting, Spring 2015), Morgan Smith (BFA, concentration in painting, Spring 2015), Gwendylen Barnes (BFA, concentration in painting, Spring 2015), Sara Cameron (BFA, concentration-Fine Art Photography graduation Spring 2014) and Corie Walker (BFA, concentration-Studio Arts graduation Fall 2014), The University of Memphis Department of Art

PROFESSIONAL FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION FOR CATALOGUE

2015

Chief Photographer contracted through Bork Fine Arts to document artworks for auction catalogue publications–client Phillips Auctions, New York, NY

Artworks documented appeared in Under The Influence held by Phillips Auctions

Artworks documented by J N Miller included:



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Damien Hirst, In a spin, the action of the world on things Vol ll, 2002 [254, Under the Influence- sold for 37,500 on March 4th, 2015]

Vik Muniz, Orestes Pursued by Furies, after Adolphe William Bourguereau (from Pictures of Junk), 2006 [211, Under the Influence- sold for 35,000 on March 4th, 2015]

Evan Penny, Back of Martha, 2007 [280, Under the Influence- sold for 35,000 on March 4th, 2015] CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER-PROFESSIONAL MUSEUM CATALOGUE

2015

Chief Photographer and Creative Director of Photography, 50 Pounds or Less produced by Art Museum of the University of Memphis and authored by Susan Naomi Nordstrom

2014

Chief Reproduction Photographer for Carroll Cloar: In His Studio book produced by Art Museum of the Museum of Memphis

MUSEUM MEDIA SPECIALIST PROJECTS (at Art Museum of University of Memphis)

Jason Miller is presently and was the lead Museum Media Specialists on the following projects at The Art Museum of The University of Memphis. His project contributions were in the area of technology and communication. His duties ranged from creative solutions and problem solving-to engineering remote submission events-to supervising graduate assistants throughout various tasks during field operations and in the Museum. Electronic collections management, data solutions, public relations, social media outputs, website design and maintenance, digital audio and video, photography, security and being a key holder to the Museum, creating calls to artists, RFQ's, overseeing submission processes, facilitating the role of ArtLab Selections Committee Chair, serving as a member of the Women's History Month Executive Committee, and generating original idea contributions as part of a team are all part of Miller's role as the Museum Media Specialist.

Samuel Hester Crone Art Museum of the University of Memphis August 1 through September 19, 2015

What I Kept, curated by Penny karwacz, photographs by Jason N. Miller Art Museum of the University of Memphis March 12 through July 2, 2015



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Beth Van Hoesen March 12 through July 2

Pink Room/De Color de Rosa by Juan Rojo in ArtLab March 12 through July 2, 2015

Juvenile-in-Justice: Photographs by Richard Ross September 19 through November 26, 2014

ArtLab: Fijiji Blocks: Eduardo Benamor Duarte September 19 through November 26, 2014

Perceptions of Me: A Project by Penny Dodds September 19 through November 26, 2014

ArtLab: Shara Plough - The Hunting Set

July 12 through September 13, 2014

Disappearing Ink, John Salvest April 5 through June 28, 2014

Daryl Thetford: Struggle to Evolve Before the End of Time in CASEWORKS April 5 through June 28, 2014

Andy Warhol Portraits: Art and Irony July 12 through September 13, 2014

Culture and Resistance, Civil Rights Photography: Memphis 1968 a project by Leila Hamdan

July 12th through September 13th

The Porcupine Effect by Sunny Montgomery / CASEWORKS / February 8, 2013 – March 19, 2013

31st Annual Juried Student Exhibition juried by Miranda Lash February 8 – March 19-Opening reception Friday, February 7, from 5-7:30 p.m., with awards announced at 6:30.

Terri Phillips / ArtLab / We Have Always Lived in the Castle



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September 7- January 4, 2014

Mortar Boards: Building a Modern University / CASEWORKS November 6, 2013 – January 4, 2013

Bauhaus twenty-21: An Ongoing Legacy – Photographs by Gordon Watkinson September 21, 2013, through January 4, 2014

Dustyn Bork: Abandoning / CASEWORKS September 21, 2013 – November 4, 2013

Christy Schuchardt Frank : Slected Works / CASEWORKS July 19 - September 7

In His Studio: Carroll Cloar June 8 – September 7, 2013

Caterina Tiazzoldi / ArtLab / Instant Installation by Caterina Tiazzoldi GSAPP Columbia University Participating Students: Constantinou Christos, Gianpapa Eleni, Koutalianou Andriana Marie. June 8 – September 7

Tim Kinard and Elizabeth Owen / CASEWORKS May 24 - July 12

Erica McCarrens: Case Studies: Other Matter April 6 through May 24, 2013 Opening reception Friday, April 5 from 5 to 7:30

Time Pools: Accessing the Aquifer The League of Imaginary Scientists in collaboration with The University of Memphis April 6 through May 24, 2013 Opening reception Friday, April 5 from 5 to 7:30

Muted Belles Revisited: CASEWORKS Opening Reception: March 7, 5:30 pm – 7 pm, UM Art Museum lobby

Michelle Foster in ArtLab (30th Annual Juried Student Exhibition) Juror - Haejung Lee - February 2 through March 16

30th Annual Juried Student Exhibition Juror - Haejung Lee



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February 2 through March 16 Disappearing Ink April 5 through June 28, 2014

Elisha Gold: Are We Human or Are We Dancers? CASEWORKS February 2 through March 16

Dr. Rock Rock Doctors: Clare Torina and Stephen Almond in CASEWORKS September 22 through January 12

Art(ifact) Museum Studies Exhibition: Art(ifact) December 1, 2012 through January 5, 2012 Opening reception Friday, November 30, 5 to 7:30pm

Corner MFA Thesis Exhibition MFA Thesis Exhibition: Brian Edward Bundren, Jennifer Burton, Katie Maish, Kathleen Murray December 1, 2012 – January 5, 2013 Opening reception: Friday, November 30, 5 to 7:30 PM

Hot Cold Cool September 22 through January 5

Jan Hankins: 11 SEPTEMBERS September 22 through November 21

Russian Propaganda Prints MFA By the Fire of Satire: Russian Propaganda Prints September 22 through November 21

Alma Mater: University of Memphis June 16 through September 15

PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING EXPERIENCE

Jason Miller has over over fifteen years of marketing and public relations experience. He has led marketing strategies for organizations he has founded and The Art Museum of the University of Memphis as Museum Media Specialist. Miller has managed over 1500 campaigns for the following organizations: Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Circuitous Succession Gallery and Franchise



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Series, Masonic Contemporary, University of memphis Women’s History Month Executive Committee, Soulrecorder, and has served many additional clients from both the public and private sector. At 35 years of age, and with two degrees of higher education behind him, Jason Miller is a creative force that enjoys working in prolific roles and guiding teams of collaborators to new boundaries. Each project starts with listening and observing so that the organization is manifested in all outreach, advocacy, and campaign strategies.

Creation and Archival Management of Original Commissioned Content

• Photograph, edit, optimize, assemble, and generate creative direction for new campaigns accessed from meetings with organizational leaders and the formation of scripts.

• Generation of written content and shaping of ideas • Editorial contributions

Social Media

Facebook Marketing Strategy

• Manage Facebook campaigns with fiscal marketing budget for algorithm optimization to reach maximum potential organic and paid likes in balance with target demographics and regions

• Create events and linked invites through multiple social media and electronic mailing networks to enhance attendance numbers and compliment traditional mailings and printed advertising

• Control the overall public appearance and uniformity of all outgoing materials and media • Monitor and filter or remove unwanted comments or users that damage the brand and image of the

organization • Maintain a regiment of new interesting updates and posts on a schedule that keeps us on the radar of

our target audience and positively in the minds of our demographics, while allowing openness for expansion by catching the interests of prospective clients

Twitter Marketing Strategy

• Post intellectually stimulating teasers that link to website or emphasized stories • Create a narrative through posting that serves an overarching campaign agenda • Focus refined highlights and elegant materials that are not shared on all connected social media

outlets in order to give visitors a reason to check back again and again for new updates

Pintrest



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• Link image highlights from events, product lines, or news coverage into categories that are accompanied by descriptive content to entice visitors to learn more about our organization, mission, and campaigns

Instagram

• Develop storylines through the use of imagery and accompanying descriptions

Mailchimp

• Organize electronic mailing lists into key campaigns and create the watermark feel and brand uniformly and constantly on all mailing for both public and private events and other messages conveyed elegantly and cleanly with attention to detail and flow of imagery and text

• Maintain lists with first and last names and additional collected information • Review metadata and all reports to learn which campaigns are most successful and why • Review how many opens by each recipient and clicks per mailing • Review reports to pinpoint peak timing for when mailings go out

Google Plus

• Cross promote other social media and highlight key components of organizational campaign mission and goals

• Share interested coverage of organizational and other affiliated events

Organizational Presence and Branding

• Development of Mantra • Development of logo • Election of font and maintenance of consistency of font use • Generation of word mark and adherence to guidelines for staff and PR use of word mark • Congruency of website • Responsive design • Analytics monitoring of all website traffic • Modular plugin utilization and avoidance of flash • Maintain news feed that demonstrates an endless stream of progression and a positive image of

success • Create a staff and board page that makes our people shine apart from other similar organizations Layout and Design



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• Use Adobe Lightroom Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and more to layout printed and online publication materials ranging from post and rack cards to brochures, yard signs, many forms of signage, and much more on a wide range of substrates and materials using many mediums

• Create didactic content such as labels and text panels mounted on rigid and other materials for use in exhibitions or other applications wherein a fluid story line or narrative is desired

• Create the mood and feel of the designs, fonts, images, shape, texture, etc.

Additional Outreach Methods

• Issuance of press releases to media outlets and correspondence • Formation and distribution of periodic or unique news letters

ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL & MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIENCE

Computer Application / Equipment Experience

Polytab Clear Gel Medium and Acrylic paint for outdoor murals Installation equipment including power lifts, book lifts, scissor lifts, scaffolding Assortment of tools and hardware Presentation problem solving and installation solutions Final presentation consideration, context, and special lighting Apple Computer Adobe Photoshop Epson Large Format Printer Accession Photography using color / grayscale cards Reproduction quality photographic documentation with advanced lighting setups in studio and on location Creation of original imagery from conception to final presentation Color mode management and monitor calibration Installation view photography Video documentation Graphic applications for a variety of outputs Vuescan Software Color Management Adobe Dreamweaver Adobe Lightroom Adobe Muse Adobe Audition



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Power Point Key Note / Pages Apple Aperture Final Cut Pro Hygrothermagraph / Environmental Monitoring Systems (QR) Quick Response Code Technology Museum Web Developer Museum Media Specialist Museum Photographer Apple iMovie Adobe Audition Audacity (audio editor) Logic Pro X (Apple audio editor) Silver Gelatin Process Black and White Wet Darkroom Silver Prints C-41 Color Processor Canon Digital SLR Camera System Nikon Digital SLR Camera System Nikon Digital SLR Camera System Traditional Multi Hot Light / Multi Strobe Large Format 4 X 5 View Camera Carl Zeiss Planar and Distagon Fixed Lenses Analog-to-digital media transfer File archiving to preserve compatibility Museum Multiplexer Surveillance Museum Public Relations Leading Workshops / Instructing Classes Problem Solving and Creative Thinking Public speaking / Presentations Global Travel & Business

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

An important fundamental of my teaching philosophy is to create artworks alongside my students. During class critique we discuss all the pieces we have made, including my piece. Students are instructed



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that the purpose of criticism is to better our selves and evolve as artists, and never to be mean. We each are encouraged to find ways to make works stronger both conceptually and esthetically.

The importance of ones overall live habits and self-discipline are discussed as part of a professional practice component, which is incorporated into curriculum. Knowledge of art history is urged in balance with a current assessment of contemporary artists. Cross-disciplinary study is encouraged so that architecture, film, and music are weighed along side sculpture, painting, and photography. Digital Art and new media is important today for artists, and my students are prompted to research substrates and mediums both traditional and alternative, and to note new advancements in materials that help artists make art in new ways that were not previously available to artists even twenty years ago.

Core courses focus on tapping into ones imagination in order to create conceptual depth and interesting original content, but there is also a strong focus on the selecting the most suitable tools for articulating and communicate ideas. Presentation is stressed in great importance because the way a piece of art is communicated to the viewer in its final materialized form is critical to its success or failure. Presentation includes lighting and choosing the appropriate type of lighting, is the piece internally or frontally lit, will the artwork require a power supply, selecting the best substrate and medium for a particular idea, hardware, labeling and titling, as well as the environment.

Punctuality and professionalism is held in high standard for all official class meeting for each course, and there is a rigid yet flexible essay portion to each course. However, the primary focus for studio art is to make art and increasingly make stronger art both in concept and presentation.

Students are offered extra credit through researching art within their immediate community and familiarizing themselves with arts organizations, galleries, and museums. Networking and learning from contemporaries is encouraged by having students attend lectures and art openings. Students are encouraged to think outside of the box of classicalism and to experiment widely with ideas before committing, but to always learn through the action of making art. Students understand that to experiment means to risk failure and that no great artwork is made without some form of calculated risk involved.

I want my students to ping off one another in more ways than simply through critiques, and one method I have learned that works well is have them work on periodic collaborative assignments between core assignments. Examples of collaborative assignments for advanced courses include producing an art exhibition that involves making the artworks, coordinating with all artists involved, electing a curator from the class, selecting a space or venue, promoting the event, and critiquing the final exhibit presentation from how it is lit, hung, labeled, and promoted in addition to the integrity of the artworks shown. An example of a collaborative assignment for a foundations level or entry level course is to make an artwork or performance piece through coordinating and delegating roles to ones classmates so that each essential problem is solved and the art piece gets made.



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Critiquing involves discussing materials, lighting considerations, and other presentation considerations ranging from the titling of the work to how it functions singularly or within the collective of a series. Questions asked include how to address sound and audiovisual components if applicable.

Courses involve lectures that incorporate art history and the study of contemporary artists of all mediums ranging from new experimental media to the classical mediums. A hands on approach to teaching technical skills and the proper use of artistic tools and applications is incorporated int the curriculum with rigor.

The invitation of periodic guest speakers help open the class to new dialogue and guest critics are invited to class critiques.

All students are invited to contribute to course dialogue, each in his or her own way.

My philosophy is to never push a student against his or her own natural inclinations, but rather to learn each student’s unique differences, which are connected to their strengths. Often students willingly break out of their safe comfort zones and excel into new experimentation when first respected and accepted for what they initially bring.

BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE

Jason Miller honors the concept that an artist should select suitable medium based on each idea, rather than committing solely to only one form of media or field. Experimentation is a constant throughout his work. Miller creates photographs, complex imagery, sculptures, paintings, songs, and poetry. Often Miller focuses on generating conceptually driven images in-studio, Memphis, TN, his native city wherein he obtained his Master of Fine Arts Degree from The University of Memphis.

As an artist, in the field of New Media Two-Dimensional Art, Miller’s work has been selected for exhibition by prestigious jurors including Alice Gray Stites, Carl Belz, Brian Rutenberg, Peter Frank, Meredith Ward, Peter Schjedahl, Fr. Terrence E. Dempsey, Dr. Ellen “Nan” Plummer, Charles Reeve, Beauvais Lyons, Gail Roberts, and Photographer’s Forum Magazine. Miller has received awards from internationally renowned jurors including Chakaia Booker, Don Gregorio, Robert J. Sanchez and Emiko René Lewis-Sanchez, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Other awards include Visual Overture Magazine’s Artist of the Week Award and Oxford American 100 most important artists in the South for the 2012 Visual South Issue, 76. Miller’s Dairy Diary series was featured in Vol. 35 of Seoul Korea’s Photo+ Magazine, and additionally included in Photo Eye Gallery’s Art Photo Index in March of 2013.

Miller has completed image driven art commissions for the City of Memphis, Loeb Properties, and Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. Most recently sculpture works by Miller have been selected by preeminent



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jurors for inclusion both in the Arkansas Art Center’s 56th Annual Delta Exhibition and Number Presents: Artists of the South, and Miller was selected for inclusion in the Winter Edition of Studio Visit Magazine by juror Carl Belz. Miller's film UPC Sex is included in Stigmart Magazine's 2014 Film Biennial Edition, VIDEOFOCUS.

On March 2015-July 2015 twenty-one large format portrait prints by Jason Miller were on view at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis in the What I Kept exhibition.

Abbreviated Bio

Jason N. Miller is an artist, curator, museum professional, and gallerist. He is principal and curator of Circuitous Succession Gallery in Memphis, TN. He serves on the Board of Directors for Number: Inc Magazine. He founded Masonic Contemporary at Scottish Rite of Memphis non-profit 501(c) 3 and the Circuitous Succession Series that led to the formation of the commercial gallery of the same name. Miller serves at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis and maintains an art practice that includes public and private mural commissions (visit murals at Overton Square, LeBoneur Children's Hospital, and Gaisman Park in Memphis), museum and gallery exhibitions, as well as art productions working with diverse individuals ranging from established artists to the homeless. Miller teaches digital art part-time at The University of Memphis and leads workshops that engage the community–also, serving as a member of the Women’s History Month Executive Committee at The University of Memphis.

He works in imagery ranging from photography to painted murals, intimate sculptures, personal audio recordings, and curatorial endeavors. Miller began his art practice in 1998–Memphis, TN, which has been home to both his studio practices and curatorial projects. Miller received his Master's of Fine Art from The University of Memphis in 2010 and has taught art foundations and digital art since 2007 at the UofM.

The intuitive process and experimentation in respect to the thought patterns of childhood remain constants through the vast and diverse range of all J N Miller’s projects. Learn more about Miller’s art projects at circuitoussuccession.com, soulrecorder.org, and masoniccontemporary.org.



http://circuitoussuccession.com/

http://soulrecorder.org/

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