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      Compost: Metaphor & Muse
      Landfill: Hallowed Ground
    Artist Statement
LYN SWETT MILLER
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Bio & Resume
Lyn Swett Miller is an emerging climate photographer happiest mucking around with the detritus of her life. While investigating compost, landfills and other aspects of our material world, she creates visual meditations on the power of regeneration, transformation and renewal.

Miller lives in Hanover, NH where she has spent the past fifteen years trying to figure out what it takes for a suburban family of four to live sustainably. She is a founding member of the Sustainable Hanover Committee and has found a voice for her activism through photography. Over time, compost became her muse and metaphor, inspiring her to reframe her relationships to just about everything, including herself. 

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1965, Miller is a fine arts graduate from Harvard College with an MBA and a Masters in Teaching. She worked in media and education for eighteen years before committing full time to caring for family and home. 

In 2017 Miller began “Compost Compositions,” her first major body of work, which was featured in a solo show in 2019 at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH. Miller has been in a number of juried and group exhibitions throughout the United States and is currently producing a book Compost: Muse & Metaphor.

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Education
Upper Valley Educators Institute, MAT, 2012.
University of Virginia, MBA, 1995.
University of Edinburgh, Rotary Scholar, 1989-1990.
Harvard-Radcliffe College, BA - Fine Arts, 1988.

Solo Exhibitions
2022 — Vermont Center for Photography, Featured Artist, June.
2019 — AVA Gallery, "Compost Compositions," Lebanon, NH USA.

Group Exhibitions
2022 — Griffin Museum of Photography, 28th Juried Exhibition (Frances Jakubek & Iaritza Menjivar)
2022 — Colorado Photographic Arts Center Juried Member’s Show (Juror: Gregory Harris)
2022 — Fine Arts League Cary, NC Annual Juried Exhibition (Juror: Jennifer Dasal)
2022 — AVA Gallery, “The Thing with Feathers,” Lebanon, NH
2022 — "Extinction 2022” Gallerium.Art
2022 — Praxis Gallery, “Words, Words, Words” Minneapolis, MN (Juror: Dallas Crow)
2022 — Praxis Gallery, "Transience" Minneapolis, MD (Juror: Aline Smithson)
2022 — Allegany National Photography Competition & Exhibition, Cumberland, MD (Juror: David Oresick)
2022 — Perspectives Gallery, "Lens2022" Evanston, IL (Juror: Karen Irvine)
2020 — Vermont Center for Photography, "Open Juried Show," Brattleboro, VT (Juror: Andrea Rosen)
2019 — AVA Gallery, "Messages for the Future," Lebanon, NH (Juror: Alan Chong)
2018 — Osher at Dartmouth, "Barnyards & Backyard Discoveries," Hanover, NH, USA.

Publications and Media
Spark. CATV Interview, Hartford, VT, USA. 2021.
“Compost, Corn and Deep Caring,” Green Energy Times, Issue 60 March - May 2020
“Pomegranates, 2015” Greenovation, Produced by Audi Environment Foundation. 2019
“Leek Soup & Salad, 2017” Harvard Art Journal, Vol. VI, Special 25th Reunion Edition, May 2018


Artist's Talks & Workshops
“Climate Joy: How Creativity & Climate Action Can Inspire Joy & New Ways of Being,” AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH, 2019.
“Waste & Our Material World,” A Conversation with Marc Morgan, Manager of the Lebanon Landfill, AVA Gallery, 2019.
“Walt Whitman & Compost: Who Knew?” A workshop in celebration of International Compost Awareness Week & the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth, Open Door Studio, White River Junction, VT, 2019.


Affiliations
American Photography Archives Group, Member
AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH, Artist Member
Center for Photographic Art, Member Photographer
Griffin Museum of Photography, Member Photographer
Professional Women Photographers, Member
Sustainable Hanover Committee, Founding Member & ongoing participant
Vermont Center for Photography, Member