A photo of a woman from the shoulders up. She has fair skin and brown hair with bangs pulled up in a bun. She's wearing cat-eye glasses, silver hanging earrings, a fuzzy mock-neck sweater, and a close-lipped smile. Behind her are boxes and bottles of paint brushes and art supplies. Light comes in from the windows that face the garden. The rain barrel that waters the garden is just outside the window.

Maggie Mills

she/her
Artist, Assoc. Prof.
Cedar Crest College
Presenter

Biography

Presenting Access Artistry for Community Disability Archive UNDUE BURDEN

Maggie Mills (she/her) is an artist and Associate Professor of Art at Cedar Crest College. Her paintings and drawings document the effects of climate change and environmental exploitation on the landscape and on 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 UNDUE BURDEN digital Disability archive and the creator of the UNDUE BURDEN accessible archive installation. Mills’ contributions as a curator and access facilitator have been included in exhibitions at Disability Pride Lehigh Valley, Cedar Crest College, Grizzly Grizzly, and Fleisher Ollman Gallery. Her writing on Disability and our failing social safety net has been published in Salon, Monthly Review, Common Dreams, and elsewhere. 

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