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Lorelle_Miller Lorelle Miller

Lorelle Avonne Miller has been an award winning artist since early childhood. Ms. Miller was born in Beverly Hills, California and raised in the San Fernando Valley. She graduated from the California State University of Northridge, earning her BA in Art with special emphasis in illustration, graphic design and sculpture. She continued with graduate work in Sculpture and Illustration. Ms. Miller received a professional designation
from the Music Center Education Department and the Los Angeles Arts Commission.

Ms. Miller served as a Graphic Arts Manager for 15 years for the bio medical leader, Siemens Pacesetter. She has also worked over 25 years as a free-lance graphic artist while continuing to develop her skills as a fine artist in oil painting, pastels and sculpture.

Ms. Miller continually strives and develops as a painter. Working with several of today's master artists, such as Morgan Weistling, Mian Situ, Lynn Gertenbach, Margot Lennartz, Joseph Mendez, Ryan Wurmser, and David Leffel. Ms. Miller has continued her development in stone sculpture and attended the Marble Marble Symposium in Colorado. Here she has the opportunity to work with many renowned master carvers from around the world.

Saugus has been her home for 28 years. There is quiet love and a mission of respect for the surrounding beauty of Santa Clarita which has inspired her recent exhibit “Chasing Open Spaces” which has been sponsored by the City of Santa Clairta and is featured on the city web site (www.chasingopenspaces.com). Her typical subject matter has been figurative throughout most of her career yet there has always been a deep seeded passion for nature. The extraordinary challenges of landscape and plein air painting has fed her continuing hunger to grow as an artist and painter.

Ms. Miller is also known for her involvement in street painting and over the last 10 years has been an invited and featured Madonnara (street painter) in over 40 festivals throughout California as well as invitations as a featured artist at a festivals in Florida and Illinois. She has demonstrated her passion for beautiful pastels by street painting up to 12’x 12’ in size and has received several prestigious awards.

Ms. Miller has been involved with teaching fine art classes for College of the Canyons over the last 9 years and taught Plein Air painting workshops for Ventura College. She has also taught for the Saugus School District, and been an instructor at SCV-Arts for 10 years. Member and past Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Arts Advisory Board for the City of Santa Clarita.

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