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African American Atelier
Atelier to Highlight Prominent Artist in City’s History
The African American Atelier will highlight the work of the late Eva Hamlin
Miller prominent Greensboro artist and educator, as part of the city’s
Bicentennial celebration.
The exhibition “Creative Teaching: Eva Hamlin Miller Retrospect” will open at
the Atelier gallery Sunday August 24, 2008 and is dedicated to the memory of her
son the late Lloyd Tevis Miller. The program will begin promptly at 3:00 pm. at
the Greensboro Cultural Center 200 N. Davie Street located in downtown
Greensboro.
Miller who co-founded the African American Atelier in 1990 with her former
student Alma Adams served as the gallery’s first curator until her sudden death
in December, 1991. Nationally acclaimed as a professional artist-educator, Eva
Hamlin Miller’s work in the arts spanned more than six decades. Her advocacy and
support of the arts helped establish several local art gallery organizations in
the Greensboro community and throughout the nation. She served on the board of
the Greensboro Artists League, the Greenhill Art Gallery and the United Arts
Council. She was a founding member of the National Conference of Artists (the
oldest African American Arts organization in the nation). “Eva’s life’s work and
love for the arts was always grounded in her teaching” say’s Alma Adams who
fondly remembers her mentor as a no-nonsense, dedicated professional. Miller
began her teaching at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and came to North Carolina
in 1940 to teach and chair the Art Department at Bennett College. She designed
the college’s first flag. From 1944-52 she was the first African American Art
supervisor for the Greensboro City Schools and staged the first series of annual
city-wide exhibitions of African American children’s art. As a business woman,
Miller opened her own home studio and made jewelry for numerous sororities and
fraternities around the country.
Miller taught art and chaired the Art department at Winston-Salem State
University and spent fifteen years teaching art at North Carolina A&T State
University before she retired. As the first curator/gallery director of the
Taylor Art Gallery at A&T, Miller developed a program for gallery interns to
acquaint young minorities with the codes, ethics and work in art galleries. She
designed stained glass windows for three Greensboro churches: Saint James
Presbyterian Church (where she was a life long member), Saint Matthews United
Methodist and Shiloh Baptist. Prior to her death in 1991 she had completed
designs for a stain glass for the Bennett College for Women chapel which was
complete and installed in 1993 after her death.
Eva Hamlin Miller’s works can be found in numerous books on African American Art
including: “Black Artists on Art” by Samella Lewis and the Alpha Kappa Alpha
publication “Afro-American Women in Art” by Constance Marteena. Her works appear
in numerous private and public collections including North Carolina Central
University, H.C. Taylor Art Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, American Savings
and Loan and Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago.
Miller was a member of the Links, Incorporated and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
She studied and traveled in many counties including Africa and Italy. She was
married to prominent Greensboro dentist the late W.LT Miller. She and her late
husband had two sons Tyrone Miller and the late Lloyd Tevis Miller.
Atelier’s Centennial exhibit highlights and recognizes good teachers like Miller
and celebrates teaching as fundamental to artistic expression and its lifelong
impact on student achievement. During the exhibit opening African American
Atelier’s Youth program will also unveil its latest community project: the
Church Street Parking Deck mural “All City All Stars” at 3:30 pm at the parking
deck entrance on YWCA place and Church Street. A reception will follow in the
Atelier gallery after the unveiling.
The exhibit and program are free and open to the public. Curator for the show is
Miller’s former student John Rogers. The exhibit will run through October 4,
2008. Gallery hours are: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:00 am-5:00
pm; Wednesday 10:00 am-7:00 pm; Sunday 2:00 pm- 5:00 pm
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