Pottery: Anita Mills Gallery

Creative, Beautifully Embellished Pottery
Today's feature: Anita Mills Gallery Documentary

Anita Mills was born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1952. She attended public school there through her undergraduate degree, earning a B.F.A. in Ceramics and Printmaking from Texas Tech University. After completing her M.F.A. in Studio Art and Art History, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977, she took a teaching position at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. During her twelve years at St. Cloud, she taught all levels of design, drawing, painting, printmaking, theory of art and “Women Artists: An Historical Survey.”

A resident of North Carolina since 1989, Anita currently lives near Hillsborough where she maintains her home and studio. She is a full-time artist and itinerant teacher of art/design/craft; teaching adults and young adults through workshops and courses offered in community education settings.

Anita uses a variety of studio techniques in her work, including relief printmaking, woodturning, blacksmithing and silversmithing. Lately, Anita has been embellishing many of her vessels with precious gems, rough stones, shell, bone, feathers, and polished or rusted metals. Additionally, she has included knobs, finials and lids turned from wood at her lathe.

Throughout her career as an artist, Anita has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions—both competitive and invitational, in regional and national venues. On many occasions she has joyfully served as guest artist, conference panelist and exhibition juror.

Visit Anita's website, http://www.anitamillsdesign.com/.  This digital film was produced by Nic Beery for http://www.beerymedia.com/.

The embellished pottery featured in this documentary is unique and stunning; really creative and beautiful!
 I believe you'll appreciate it, too.