Artist Bios:

 

Anna Alvina Miller was born in Tucson, AZ—the first of two identical twins. She began studying art in Wichita, KS at Butler Community College.  After returning to Tucson, Miller earned an AFA at Pima Community College and immediately began pursuing her BFA in sculpture at the University of Arizona. There she will attain her degree in December 2017.  At the U of A she has dedicated her personal studies to sculpture while undergoing internships there and at Pima Community College alongside being an instructor’s aid to faculty at Pima.

Miller’s work is centered around self-identity and the external factors that shape and influence it. Her sculptures draw on her individual experiences to visualize shared, universal experiences. Miller has been shown in Tucson galleries such as the Lionel Rombach Gallery at the U of A and the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery at Pima CC.  In the exhibition called “Generations of Women Artists” she was honored to represent upcoming female artists at the Tubac Center for the Arts where she is working on an upcoming exhibition as an artist and juror.

 

Michael Fadel was born in Lebanon to a Lebanese father and American mother and now resides in Tucson, Arizona.  He has been teaching as an adjunct instructor at the University of Arizona and at Southwest University of Visual Arts alongside his practice as an artist. Fadel earned a BFA from Winthrop University and a MFA from the University of Arizona—both in sculpture. He received many distinctions, including the Centennial Award, the Edward Francis Dunn Scholarship, and is a Medici Scholar.