Unexpected Furniture

Building Curiosity

The stories are the interesting part.

Naomi Miller’s began in western Maine. Visual art was not her focus growing up instead she received a Bachelor of Art in theater from St. Micheles College in Vermont. After graduation she eventually, after a few detours landed in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where she worked as a properties artisan building furniture for theaters around Pittsburgh, primarily at the Pittsburgh Public theater. After many happy years there, she decided she wanted to improve her furniture chops and was accepted into the furniture design MFA at Rochester Institute of technology, where she received Her MFA in December 2023. She currently lives in Madison Wisconsin and is the Instructional Technician in the wood area at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.