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Rick Mills is a
glass and mixed-media sculptor and Professor of Art at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his BFA from Ohio
State University and an MFA from the University of Hawaii. In
1986 and 2004 Mills received a Creative Glass Center of
America Fellowship, and in 1988, he was a research fellow at
the Royal College of Art in London, England. In 1992 and 1998
he taught glass casting at the Pilchuck Glass School in
Stanwood, Washington. Through the years, his work has been
widely exhibited locally, nationally and internationally in
places such as the International Glass Kanazawa 1990, Japan,
Crossings 1989 France-Hawaii; solo exhibitions at The
Contemporary Museum, Hawaii in 1995, Friesen Gallery in
Seattle, Washington in 1997 & 2000 and at the Museum of
Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington in 1999. |
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In 1998 he completed a large glass
frieze commissioned by the State Foundation on Culture and the
Arts (SFCA) for the Hawaii Convention Center and in 1999
received their Individual Artist Fellowship Award. In November
of 2003, he completed another large glass wall relief sculpture
for Leilehua High school in Wahiawa as part of the SFCA's
Artists in the Schools Program. |
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In 2002 he s
received the Baciu Award from the Artists of Hawaii Exhibition
at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. His sculptures and
blown glass are in numerous private and public collections such
as the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts,
Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark, Royal College of Art, London,
England. |
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