Sam Miller
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Education


2028    BFA in Fiber, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States

2028    Minor in Sound Studies, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States

2028    Minor in Social Practice, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States



Awards 


2026    Susan Lordi Marker Project Award, Kansas City, MO, United States



Honors


2026    Kansas City Art Institute’s President’s List, Spring, Kansas City, MO, United States

2025    Kansas City Art Institute’s President’s List, Fall, Kansas City, MO, United States

2023    Kansas City Art Institute’s President’s List, Spring, Kansas City, MO, United States



Group Exhibitions


2026    Dawning, The Warehouse, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States

2026    Gathering Voices, NoDivide KC, Kansas City, MO, United States

2026    Convos Around the Dinner Table, Vulpes Bastille, Kansas City, MO, United States

2025    Electric, The Warehouse, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States

2025    Trifocal, East Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States

2025    Caught in Motion, Lester-Goldman Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States



Screenings & Festivals


2026    Magic Lantern, Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City, MO, United States

2024    Magic Lantern, Screenland, Kansas City, MO, United States



Media Appearances

2025    “Sound in Radio Art” KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio, 29 January 2025


Meshes of the Afternoon
2026
16” x 17”, double weave pickup with cotton yarns




    Double weave pickup animation study from Maya Deren’s 1943 short film “Meshes of the Afternoon” made from 14 frames (each side). Beneath the topmost layers are semi visible marks from a sharpie, used both for planning spacing of the composition of each frame, and also showing through, quietly suggesting space where there is none woven. The subject is taken out of a scene where Deren is falling up the stairs as the camera rotates in a circle, and so I wanted to remove that space just enough that the figure is isolated, but not to totally disrupt the viewers understanding of the relationship of motion between the “camera” and the figure.