Cynthia Miller

Thank you for the opportunity to offer my skills to enhance the beauty of our community. Arizona has given me a new life! I moved from Chicago in 2020; my art and I have been thriving. Because my medium is glass, not paint, it is successfully installed outdoors as well as indoors and I have been commissioned to create public installations. This week I completed and shipped a 9 panel composition for a senior residence on the West coast. The University of Illinois, in September 2021, commissioned my composition, 40’ x 4′, for the Grainger College of Science and Engineering. Emphasis is on growth in travel; in this case space travel. I completed this project before deadline and under budget. The Children’s Hospital of Cincinnati recently my work which was installed in a new wing of the Hospital. The colors and shapes that I used were intended to enhance the comfort and well being of the patients, visitors and staff. My artwork aims to reflect our exceptionally beautiful community, and to communicate that important mission through art and design enhancements as you will see in the images below. My medium is vitreous enamel glass kiln fused onto burnished copper panels; it is impervious to weather. Colors will never fade, will sparkle in direct light and are easy to clean; French cleats provide security against theft. I have always been fascinated with brilliant, jewel-like color. Vitreous enamel glass, kiln fused onto copper panels, captures and celebrates light and color like no other medium I know. I delight in exploring the scintillating array of hues and luminosity: each shift in light reveals another variation. Colors overlay and peek through each other. Just as jazz and chamber musicians explore, dialogue, and trade musical themes from one instrument to another, so color moves from one area to another on the copper. I celebrate the wonders of the natural world: the colors, the seasons, how light plays on a leaf or a cactus or emanates from a celestial nebula. Creating copper enamel art is an adventure. The kiln interior has been heated to a glowing orange; powdered glass melts and fuses onto the copper as it is fired. It is exhilarating to explore the evolution of a composition as each successive layer adds luminosity and depth. Each composition is unique and intended to stimulate your imagination. Again, my thanks for the opportunity to enhance the beauty of our community, Southern AZ. Deepest respect and kindest regards to all.