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Highly detailed sculptures with a life like presence created from clay. Each captivating sculpture ignites your spirit according to your your life experiences.

How did you begin your career as an artist?

As a child I was captivated by the unlimited colors and textures in nature. I spent countless hours, exploring the woods, fishing, hunting and playing in a bayou located behind my childhood home. I was always surrounded by creativity in my home . One of my older brothers was into the arts and that gave me access to draw material. My mother was a seamstress that designed most of her clothing. As early as age 6, I began to hold purple colored clay, and then bank of the value and fashioned it into rabbits and other small animals. Throughout my formative years, my teachers recognized that I had artistic ability and began to recruit me to design, posters, and other artistic renderings. Following high school, I attended ended college chose to take ceramics as an elective. My Instructor taught me how to create pottery, fire, and glaze it. Additionally, I learned what clay would, and would not do. I later taught myself to add faces to the pottery, and it Evolves into creating figurines, and then sculptures. I have been fascinated with this process since that time.

What inspires you to create art?

The energy from my life experiences , upbringing ,beliefs, relationships, that are occurring on this Journey called life Inspire me to create art. I was raised in the church, and it was actually across the street from my childhood home. There was also a huge joint two doors down from my house. I was mesmerized by the sounds of a high energy created by the choir, singing, a joyful noise, and hearing the blues that would began playing, if the sermon went past the time that the juke joint opened for the day. There were colorfully dressed women and men in both places. You Could feel the high energy in the sermon at church, and the blues that were being played on the jukebox at the Juke joint. My creations pay homage to both There is something about the high emotion in both places. The soul, stirring praises of a choir and the gut, tugging blues. They were good and bad people in both places. After all, the blues is said to be a good man feeling bad. I am most inspired by the tantalizing gratification, garnered from completing a sculpture. The process of taking a body of natural clay, and turning it into something beautiful is my inspiration. Even after working 30 years as a sculptor , from start to finish ,using references, studying bone structures, muscles, tissue, different fabrics and textures still inspires me. It allows me to wake up and be a better person each day.

Tell us about a piece of art you Sold that you now wish you kept as a part of your collection and why?

I sold a relief that I created entitled Cross Road Blues. It gave homage to the  question that seems to weigh heavily on the mind of the masses,”What does it take to reach that acme of success’?

What does success look like for you?

To be mentally, spiritually, physically and financially healthy. It is never giving up on yourself. It is a continuous climb. Success is not defining yourself a spot or mark on the scale .

What Has been the most challenging aspect of being an entrepreneur?

Time management or the lack of time. Most people go to work and do as less as possible because they feel that they are underpaid. An entrepreneur has to go to work and do as much as possible because they wear all of the hats.

As an entrepreneur I have to create the work , market it ,schedule shows, make travel and hotel arrangements.

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Artist Profile

Harold W. Miller Artist, Sculptor and Educator

Harold W. Miller is an artist and arts educator, who serves as an inspiration to the many that he taught, helped, and encouraged through his 35 years as a professional sculptor. Synopsis : Born Harold Wayne Miller born on September 20, 1957, in Vicksburg, a once war torn town whose hills caress the banks of the mighty Mississippi River.  His unique work has been said to take you to a place that actually captures one’s most intimate emotions.Miller is a self-taught sculptor whose fascination with clay began at the age of six when he began to create animals with clay from the embankment of a bayou behind his family’s home. Miller’s creations principally take a retrospective view of his cultural experiences, which primarily were an experience of having lived in a home that rested between a church and juke joint, in a town whose past mindset  inspired him to give relevance to a bygone era . This is demonstrated by the spiritual nature of his African American figures that are depicted singing praises in worship service as they held onto their faith while subjected to the relentless atrocities of living in the south. His sculptures further pay homage to one of their outlets to express their pain through music as he honors the blues. Miller is an intense observer of people, which is where he receives some of his greatest inspirations.

He believes an artist has to immerse one’s mind into the natural world and environment of those around them in order to create life-like creations captured in clay. Miller’s best-known works depict African American women as strong, maternal figures. In one original sculpture, Emma , a young African American woman in her Sunday’s best is captured praying. In another piece, CrossRoad Blues , a mixed medium tribute to acknowledge one of the well known Mississippi Folk Tales about the Blues and a musicians desire to have power over it. Miller is well renowned for creating brilliantly colored wind figures whose cloaks show movement in clay as they appear to withstand winds that may challenge one’s dreams. He creates various sculptures that include his extensive knowledge of pottery such as three-faced vases. Furthermore, Miller creates figurines, life-sized dolls, bust, reliefs, paintings ,hand made frames , masterfully carved wooden tables and awards.