Dilara Miller
Visiting Artist
Dilara Miller is a Turkish-American artist based in the Hudson Valley. She received her BFA from The University of Colorado, Boulder and her MFA from Northern Illinois University with an emphasis in ceramics and printmaking methods. Dilara has had her work featured in national and international exhibitions such as the Woman, Life, Freedom exhibit in Chicago, Illinois and the 8th International Lithographic Symposium in Tidaholm, Sweden; as well as having been published in the MAPC Journal. Dilara’s work references antiquities and how they are presented today, she seeks to identify patterns of hierarchies that exist in our human history through an eco-feminist lens. Dilara retells mythic Islamic stories to promote healing for women to speak for the ways our bodies metabolize shame and form practices of resistance.