richard kirk mills PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Education
1974 M.F.A., The City College of New York, CUNY
Grants, awards, residencies
2007 Ucross Artist Residency, Clearmont, Wyoming
2006 Research Grant for Walking Trees/Talking Trees public art project, C.W. Post / Long Island University
2006 Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, Wyoming
2000-06 Artist in residence, Teaneck Creek Conservancy, Puffin Foundation, USEPA, Bergen County grant
2005 Huntington NY Public Art Initiative. Temporary installation of Walking Trees/Talking Trees. Huntington, NY
2005 USEPA Environmental Education grant for eco-art project with local northern NJ middle schools
2004 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency (Geraldine R. Dodge fellowship)
2004 Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, Wyoming
2004 Special Project Grant from Bergen County and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State
2004 Research Grant for Artist Book, C.W. Post / Long Island University
2002 Education Commendation Award, Bergen County Historic Preservation Advisory Board
2001 Research Monetary and Research Released Time grant, C.W. Post / L. I. University
2001 Puffin Foundation Ltd. grant
2000-06 New Jersey State Council on the Arts / Artists in Education Residency Roster
2000 The Waterfront Center, Wash., D.C. Clearwater Award for Hackensack River Stories Project. Jane Holtz Kay, juror
2000 Hackensack Riverkeeper. First annual Friend of the Hackensack River Award; citations from NJ
Legislature,
U.S. House of Representatives.
1999 Puffin Foundation Ltd. grant
1999 NJ Dept. of Commerce and Economic Development grant
1999 Research grant, C.W. Post / LIU
1999 New Jersey Historical Commission grant, Department of State
Panels, lectures
2007 Called to Action: Environmental Restoration by Artists, Art Sites, Riverhead, NY, panelist
2004 Teaneck Creek Conservancy Art Program, Artists Talk on Art panel series, School of Visual Arts, NY
2004 Community/Performance Art Culture Nature International Conference, Bryant College, Rhode Island
2003 Into the Woods / Environmental Art Artists Talk on Art, Phoenix Gallery panel series, NYC
2003 Just What Is Public Art? Puffin Cultural Forum lecture
2002 Slide talk for Cuban Press Conference, Biblioteca Nacional de Jose Marti, Havana, Cuba
2001 Poetics and Politics: An Advocacy Strategy from Interpretive Plaque to Theatrical Pulpit panelist.
National
Trust for Historic Preservation Conference. With the
Townscape Institute. Providence, RI
2001 Chelsea Center juror, L.I. Partnership / Cultural Dev., Muttontown, NY
2001 Public Art in an Environmental Context presenter, 3rd
International Conference of Art Culture Nature,
Northern
Arizona Univ., Flagstaff.
2001 Telling a River’s Story through Art Along the Greenway Bloomfield College, NJ,
Bloomfield Third Riverbank
Association symposium
2001 Hackensack River Stories: Public Art for a Greenway Sierra Club, Northern NJ
2000 The Waterfront Center’s 18th Annual Conference: Urban
Waterfronts 18 / The Dynamic Waterfront
—Putting People
First. Panel: Art: A Potent Tool for Understanding Waterfront Culture October 27, Oakland, CA
2000 Malling of The Meadowlands Puffin Cultural Forum Panel
2000 Con Art, Gallery 1708, Richmond, VA , juror
1999 Public Art in Context: Proposal For the Hackensack River Greenway Hackensack River Symposium,
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Teaching see also http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/rmills/
2000- Long Island University / C.W. Post, Professor
1993-99 Long Island University / C.W. Post, Associate Professor
1987-93 Long Island University / C.W. Post, Assistant Professor
1986-87 Long Island University / C.W. Post, Adjunct Professor
1986-87 President, instructor, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York. Involved in founding MGC, a not for profit
international printmaking facility which provides seminars, courses and workshop space for artists.
As President, organized and supervised workshop, finance, program and development committees,
chaired executive and general membership meetings; recruited and developed advisory board;
directly involved in design and construction of facility including capital purchases and solicitation of
donations; developed and managed first year budget; supervised grant writing; coordinated
several major benefit print exhibits.
Selected exhibitions, commissions
2007 Called To Action: Environmental Restoration by Artists, Art Sites, Riverhead, NY. Curated by Lillian Ball.
2007 Greystone Park Pictorial History, Morris Plains, NJ. Four murals in porcelain enamel on steel for the lobby of the
new Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital. Commissioned under the Public Buildings Arts Inclusion Act of 1978.
A Project of New Jersey Economic Development Authority, New Jersey Department of Human Services,
and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
2006 Art in a Box, Benefit. Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York
2006 Life in the Meadows/The People and History of Teaneck Creek, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
2006 Walking Trees/Talking Trees Temporary public art installation with students from LIU/C.W. Post Printmaking Workshop,
Northport (NY) H.S., Hawthorne Elementary School (Teaneck, NJ). Dix Hills Park, Huntington, NY and Teaneck Creek
Conservancy, Teaneck, NJ. Funded by Township of Huntington Public Art Initiative, C. W. Post and the Puffin Foundation.
2006 Bass River State Forest Stories, Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 23’ long narrative sculptural and interpretive feature
for new park administrative office. Narrative graphics reveal the 100 - year history of changing land use in New Jersey’s
oldest state park, based on interviews and research of local community. The project is made possible by the Public Building
Arts Inclusion Act of 1978. The Arts Inclusion program is administered by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
2005 Public Art Works-in-Progress NJ State Council on the Arts, Department of State Galleries, Trenton, NJ
2005 Buzzoni Farmstead /An Heirloom Landscape, Closter, NJ. Commissioned by the Closter, NJ Environmental Commisssion,
a narrative signwork reveals the site history and changing land use patterns of the area.
2004 Re-Futuring the Brownfields of Teaneck Creek: Artists Bite Back! Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
2003- 08 Broad Street Station Stories at the Broad Street, Newark, NJ train station. Due for installation in 2007-08,
a series of 19 porcelain enamel signworks of digitally collaged artifacts, images and text seek to connect the transportation
public to local history and the surrounding communities. The Broad Street Station project is made possible by the Public
Building Arts Inclusion Act of 1978. The Arts Inclusion program is administered by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Funding is by NJ Transit.
2001-2 Toxic Landscapes: Artists Examine the Environment traveling to:
WASTE Summit/Rachel Carson Institute,
Pittsburgh;
Biblioteca Nacional de Jose Marti, Havana, Cuba, 2002
2001 Building Against the Sky Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York
2000 Fairleigh Dickinson University College Art Gallery,
Hackensack / Teaneck campus.
Hackensack River Stories Project:
public art signworks for the 3.5 mile Hackensack River Greenway through Teaneck, New Jersey
2000 Terra Infirma / Art, Activism and the Environment Puffin Foundation
1997 Today’s Printmaker: Artist & Wordsmith Hillwood Art Museum, LIU
1996 X Community Garden. Armory Street Redevelopment Project / City of Englewood, New Jersey.
With community residents and volunteers, designed, constructed and planted a garden consisting of paths
forming the letter X, a house shape and planting beds containing native ornamental shrubs, perennials and grasses.
The building lot had been the site of a chop shop which was condemned and torn down leaving only contaminated soil.
1995 Portfolio: Portraits in Words and Images Harper Collins, New York. Subsequently traveling to:
Borderline Printmakers Workshop Keele University,
Staffordshire, England and
Noorkoping Konst Forum 2, Stockholm, Sweden
• Group Monoprint Exhibition Connecticut Graphic Arts Center.
1992 Richard Mills Etchings From the Garden Books & Co., New York.
• John Fekner / Rick Mills Prints and Paintings 1986-92 Hillwood Art Museum, LIU
• Benefit Exhibition for Peace Development Fund Forum Gallery, New York.
1990 Richard Mills Prints Saint Peter’s Church, NYC, New York Visual Arts Program.
• Landscape Observed and Imagined: A Common Bond Krasdale Foods Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, D. Hauben, curator
1988 On Broadway: Print Portfolio Sylvan Cole Gallery, New York.
• U.N. International Day of Peace Art Exhibition Pak Sang Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1987 MGC Benefit Print Exhibition Associated American Artists, New York.
• Annual Printmaking Council of New Jersey Nabisco Brands Purchase Award
• Works on Paper Trenton City Museum at Ellerslie
• Benefit Print Exhibition Manhattan Graphics Center, New York.
1986 Intimate Views...From Away Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine. Print portfolio with poet Frederick Lowe
• 77th Annual Paper in Particular Columbia College/Missouri Arts Council.
• Benefit Print Exhibition Our Mutual Friend, Brooklyn, New York.
1985 Portfolio of Prints and Poetry. Books & Co., New York.
• Prints Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Self Portraits to Go Pratt Graphics Center, New York.
• Prints from Pratt Graphics Center American Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Back Streets / Back Yards Associated American Artists, New York
• 1/10 A Printmakers Point of View Public Image Gallery, New York.
• Annual Printmaking Council of New Jersey
• Metro Show City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey. Best Print Award
• Prints Ensuite The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York
• Faces & Places: Prints from Pratt Images Gallery, Briarcliff, New York
Bibliography
2007 The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community through Public Art and Urban Design
Townscape Institute, Ronald Lee Fleming, Merrell Publishers
2007 Called to Action: Environmental Restoration by Artists Art Sites llc, Riverhead, NY
2006 Web Portfolio Design and Applications, John DiMarco, Idea Group Pub.
2002 Landscape Works with a Down-to-earth Bent Jim Beckerman, The Record, Jan. 6
2001 Artist Draws on River Restoration Steve Kelman, The Suburbanite, Feb. 21
2001 Printmaking For Beginners, Jane Stobart, A&C Black Ltd, London
2000 UPN Channel 9, Secaucus, Good News , Interview, Dec. 1
2000 P. Ajuah Baity–Jones Take 10 , Time Warner Channel 10 News NJ, October 11
2000 Margo Nash, The New York Times, September 10 With His Art, One Can Find A River’s History On A Sign
2000 Ana Alaya, The Star Ledger, Sept 20, An Artist Adopts the River
2000 Don Stancavish, The Record, May 17, A Riverfront Retrospective
2000 Sherri Hendsley, NEWS 12 New Jersey, Interview, May 5