Education
M.F.A., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
B.F.A., Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Maggie Mills is Associate Professor of Art at °µÍø½ûÇø. Her paintings and drawings document the effects of climate change and environmental degradation on the landscape and its most vulnerable inhabitants.
Mills was awarded the Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellowship, is a Fleisher Wind Challenge winner, was a National Performance Network/Visual Artist Network finalist and was awarded the Landlab residency through the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education and Knight Foundation. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions including those at the Michener Museum, Delaware Contemporary, Moore College of Art, and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
Mills is the recipient of numerous community-based project grants in collaboration with Grizzly Grizzly Gallery, Brush with the Law community re-entry program, and Hook&Loop accessible artist collective. She is an administrator for the UNDUE BURDEN digital Disability archive and the creator of an accessible UNDUE BURDEN installation which was featured on the WHYY affiliate of NPR and at the Symposium for Disability and Accessibility at Yale University.
Mills teaches design and art history, with attention to marginalized artists and groups who are excluded from the Western art history canon.