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Online Studio Tour!

Posted on November 16, 2021November 19, 2021 · Categories Exhibits, Sculpture

Exclusive release of new ghost net baskets during Washington County ONLINE Studios!

1000 Moons virtual launch

Posted on November 8, 2021May 10, 2022 · Categories Exhibits, Sculpture

Watch the live event recording online now!

One month in the Ghost Net Landscape

Posted on June 7, 2019July 10, 2019 · Categories Exhibits, Sculpture

Collaboration with dozens of artists and ocean lovers, 17 baskets, and big news for the future of the Ghost Net Landscape!

Ghost Net Landscape interactive installation & performance!

Posted on March 9, 2019July 10, 2019 · Categories Exhibits, Sculpture

Join me in an interactive installation, transforming fishing rope waste into artwork!

Pacific Ocean ghost net baskets

Posted on August 20, 2018 · Categories Sculpture

My biggest, most colorful series of fishing rope baskets is finished, and available now in Oregon and on Kauai.

Upcoming Art Exhibits – Fall 2018

Posted on August 13, 2018August 21, 2018 · Categories Exhibits, Paintings, Sculpture

There’s a lot happening in Oregon this fall! I’ll have plein air paintings on display in the Portland area, colorful rope baskets and encaustic paintings at the coast, and the Artists Open Studios tour coming up in October!

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Upcoming Events

Ceramics Studio Showcase

Including work from my July 2024 artist residency
Jan. 14 - Feb. 27, 2025
Reception Jan. 24, 5-7pm
Chehalem Cultural Center
Newberg, OR

Coastal Hues

Group exhibit featuring my Ghost Net Baskets
Jan. 14 - March 22, 2025
Reception Feb. 7, 5-8pm (First Friday Art Walk)
Art Elements Gallery
Newberg, OR

Passage

Solo exhibit of Oregon coast paintings and reclaimed fishing rope sculpture
Jan. 24 - July 25, 2025
Hatfield Marine Science Center
Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building
Newport, OR

Emily Jung Miller 鍾

@emilyjungmiller

Ocean-inspired artwork from Oregon & Kauai 🌊

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I have a solo show open now in Newport on the Oregon coast ~ upstairs + downstairs in the Gladys Valley Marine Studies building at Hatfield Marine Science Center.

*** It is a separate building from the Visitor Center. ***

I highly recommend stopping in to the Visitor Center too, especially at their scheduled octopus feeding times 🐙

PASSAGE
January 24 - July 25, 2025
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Oregon coast paintings and reclaimed fishing rope sculpture by Emily Jung Miller
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Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building
2030 SE Marine Science Dr.
Newport, Oregon
Open Mon-Fri 8am-5pm

In these works, I consider the passage of time, movement through passageways, passages in our life stories, the passing on of loved ones, the passing on of knowledge, and the passage of ships, people, fish, and fishing gear across oceans.

PASSAGE includes 22 sculptures and 18 paintings. Full catalog on my website at emilyjungmiller.com/exhibits/passage

Huge thanks to @owenpremore for curating the show 🙏
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#reclaimedmaterials #recycledart #fishingrope #fishingnet #oceanplastic #ghostnet #watercolor #aquarelle #watercolour #oregonartist #newportoregon #hatfieldmarinesciencecenter #oregoncoast #oceanart #fiberart #contemporarysculpture

@emilyjungmiller

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I have a solo show open now in Newport on the Oregon coast ~ upstairs + downstairs in the Gladys Valley Marine Studies building at Hatfield Marine Science Center. *** It is a separate building from the Visitor Center. *** I highly recommend stopping in to the Visitor Center too, especially at their scheduled octopus feeding times 🐙 PASSAGE January 24 - July 25, 2025 🌊 Oregon coast paintings and reclaimed fishing rope sculpture by Emily Jung Miller 🌊 Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building 2030 SE Marine Science Dr. Newport, Oregon Open Mon-Fri 8am-5pm In these works, I consider the passage of time, movement through passageways, passages in our life stories, the passing on of loved ones, the passing on of knowledge, and the passage of ships, people, fish, and fishing gear across oceans. PASSAGE includes 22 sculptures and 18 paintings. Full catalog on my website at emilyjungmiller.com/exhibits/passage Huge thanks to @owenpremore for curating the show 🙏 . . . #reclaimedmaterials #recycledart #fishingrope #fishingnet #oceanplastic #ghostnet #watercolor #aquarelle #watercolour #oregonartist #newportoregon #hatfieldmarinesciencecenter #oregoncoast #oceanart #fiberart #contemporarysculpture

21 hours ago

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Join me this Wednesday Jan. 29 from 10am-11:30am at Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro for a casual artist chat hosted by @justcreatecommunity. In celebration of Lunar New Year that day, I will have 8 unique Urchin Bowls with koi fish or gold anemone / coral details, created with @sanbaostudio patterns. Also free mini-prints of my Lion Dance painting. I'll have my grandmother's sewing machine on hand, to share how I create my Ocean Baskets with reclaimed fishing rope. And afterwards you can go to @lansuchinesegarden to see the Lion Dance in person 💥🧨 🧧🍊🏮
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#gongxifacai #urchinbowls #porcelain #oregonartist #portlandartist #pdxartist #ceramics #keramik #slipcast #slipcasting #koifish #sanbaostudio

@emilyjungmiller

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Join me this Wednesday Jan. 29 from 10am-11:30am at Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro for a casual artist chat hosted by @justcreatecommunity. In celebration of Lunar New Year that day, I will have 8 unique Urchin Bowls with koi fish or gold anemone / coral details, created with @sanbaostudio patterns. Also free mini-prints of my Lion Dance painting. I'll have my grandmother's sewing machine on hand, to share how I create my Ocean Baskets with reclaimed fishing rope. And afterwards you can go to @lansuchinesegarden to see the Lion Dance in person 💥🧨 🧧🍊🏮 . . . #gongxifacai #urchinbowls #porcelain #oregonartist #portlandartist #pdxartist #ceramics #keramik #slipcast #slipcasting #koifish #sanbaostudio

1 week ago

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@emilyjungmiller

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Join me tonight Jan. 24 for an artists reception at @chehalemculturalcenter in Newberg, 5-7pm, celebrating their annual Ceramics Studio Showcase. I'll be sharing work I created during my 2024 residency, including four brand-new Urchin Cups in different colors. Visit emilyjungmiller.com/exhibits to see all the work I have in this show. Ceramics Studio Showcase is open Tues-Sat 9am-6pm thru Feb. 27. . . . #oceaninspired #oceanceramics #slipcasting #slipcast #porcelain #ceramics #keramik #seaurchin #pottery #oregonartist #portlandartist #pdxartist #functionalart

2 weeks ago

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The past six weeks have been so heavy, with personal and global loss, and I am struggling to find light or hope for the next four years. I continue to choose kindness in every way that I can, including kindness to myself to keep on making gentle space for this grief, to honor my aunt after her passing, and to support those who are most vulnerable as I can.

Last year I talked with my aunt about social justice and change work. She was still well enough to share a hike along this local trail she had committed to maintaining, past this sweet unnamed waterfall. I sometimes question my effectiveness and struggle to believe my work makes a difference, in the face of so much continued selfishness and hate in the world. My aunt's career was dedicated to social service. She said she knew exactly what I meant, and she did not have a solution. But she eventually decided that her power lay in her continued choosing to do the right thing. And it may or may not make a difference, but she would do it anyway.

I haven't felt able to post about my art, but I have been making things, and I expect I'll share them soon.

@emilyjungmiller

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The past six weeks have been so heavy, with personal and global loss, and I am struggling to find light or hope for the next four years. I continue to choose kindness in every way that I can, including kindness to myself to keep on making gentle space for this grief, to honor my aunt after her passing, and to support those who are most vulnerable as I can. Last year I talked with my aunt about social justice and change work. She was still well enough to share a hike along this local trail she had committed to maintaining, past this sweet unnamed waterfall. I sometimes question my effectiveness and struggle to believe my work makes a difference, in the face of so much continued selfishness and hate in the world. My aunt's career was dedicated to social service. She said she knew exactly what I meant, and she did not have a solution. But she eventually decided that her power lay in her continued choosing to do the right thing. And it may or may not make a difference, but she would do it anyway. I haven't felt able to post about my art, but I have been making things, and I expect I'll share them soon.

2 months ago

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More painting in new places!
1: Icicle Creek, Leavenworth WA
2: Dry Falls Lake, Grand Coulee WA
Mahalo @peggy_in_paradise for a lovely trip 🤩
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#pleinair #pleinairpainting #allaprima #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #leavenworth #iciclecreek #grandcoulee #dryfalls #washingtonexplored

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More painting in new places! 1: Icicle Creek, Leavenworth WA 2: Dry Falls Lake, Grand Coulee WA Mahalo @peggy_in_paradise for a lovely trip 🤩 . . . #pleinair #pleinairpainting #allaprima #watercolor #watercolour #aquarelle #leavenworth #iciclecreek #grandcoulee #dryfalls #washingtonexplored

3 months ago

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Mahalo to J and @helenturnerfinearts for a lovely week of plein air painting in New Mexico. What a different landscape! My 7 finished watercolors are posted on my website www.emilyjungmiller.com, link in bio. New places always offer their own challenges for plein air painting, with different colors and forms and weather than what we're used to. With nearly 20 years painting together, we always rise to the challenge one way or another!! ☀☂🥂
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#pleinair #pleinairpainting #pleinairwatercolor #watercolors #aquarelle #newmexico #newmexicoart #abiquiu #ghostranch #santafe

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Mahalo to J and @helenturnerfinearts for a lovely week of plein air painting in New Mexico. What a different landscape! My 7 finished watercolors are posted on my website www.emilyjungmiller.com, link in bio. New places always offer their own challenges for plein air painting, with different colors and forms and weather than what we're used to. With nearly 20 years painting together, we always rise to the challenge one way or another!! ☀☂🥂 . . . #pleinair #pleinairpainting #pleinairwatercolor #watercolors #aquarelle #newmexico #newmexicoart #abiquiu #ghostranch #santafe

4 months ago

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Towards the end of my residency at @chehalemculturalcenter I pulled over on the side of the country highway between Forest Grove and Newberg and sat for a few minutes to soak in the view. I commuted to the Chehalem Cultural Center all month, and this beautiful 40-minute drive became part of my experience.

Why is it important to move slowly? This question came into my head that morning as I began my commute, and the rest of the poem accumulated during the drive. I wrote it down that day in clay slabs. This is a preview of some of the text, and highlights of my process creating the porcelain tiles using ocean mud and shells gathered from my grandparents' home place in Deer Isle Maine, and reclaimed fishing rope from Kauai.

Processing loss and connection in both places, thinking about the complicated meaning of home and homes, when the tides of family ties have shifted and "going home" becomes something we must choose to create and sustain for ourselves.

Text on slides 9 and 10 reads:
Why is it
important
to move
slowly ?

Ask a child
an elder
a redwood
a dragonfly
In fact
ask every
tree
in the forest

Ask
in the
bursting
of spring

Ask
in the silence
after
wildfires
Ask
every day
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#poetry #ceramics #keramik #clay #pottery #reclaimedmaterials #wildceramics #portlandartist #pdxartist #oregonartist

@emilyjungmiller

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Towards the end of my residency at @chehalemculturalcenter I pulled over on the side of the country highway between Forest Grove and Newberg and sat for a few minutes to soak in the view. I commuted to the Chehalem Cultural Center all month, and this beautiful 40-minute drive became part of my experience. Why is it important to move slowly? This question came into my head that morning as I began my commute, and the rest of the poem accumulated during the drive. I wrote it down that day in clay slabs. This is a preview of some of the text, and highlights of my process creating the porcelain tiles using ocean mud and shells gathered from my grandparents' home place in Deer Isle Maine, and reclaimed fishing rope from Kauai. Processing loss and connection in both places, thinking about the complicated meaning of home and homes, when the tides of family ties have shifted and "going home" becomes something we must choose to create and sustain for ourselves. Text on slides 9 and 10 reads: Why is it important to move slowly ? Ask a child an elder a redwood a dragonfly In fact ask every tree in the forest Ask in the bursting of spring Ask in the silence after wildfires Ask every day . . . #poetry #ceramics #keramik #clay #pottery #reclaimedmaterials #wildceramics #portlandartist #pdxartist #oregonartist

5 months ago

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Leaf soap dishes from my residency at @chehalemculturalcenter. The gorgeous gardens surrounding the Cultural Center greeted me every day during my residency. I gathered leaves from redbud, heuchera, and geraniums in their gardens, and rolled the leaves onto clay slabs to make seven leaf soap dishes. I gifted these to the ceramics studio community. Unintenionally inspired by the Korok forest spirit masks from Zelda. Yahaha🌱

Direct prints are a new exploration in ceramics for me. I'm enjoying the layers of meaning that are added to a piece by these textures, impressions of the site and the experience that are both more real and more abstract than anything I would have sculpted on my own.
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#ceramics #keramik #pottery #handbuilt #natureprints #oregonartist #artistresidency #portlandartist #pdxartist

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Leaf soap dishes from my residency at @chehalemculturalcenter. The gorgeous gardens surrounding the Cultural Center greeted me every day during my residency. I gathered leaves from redbud, heuchera, and geraniums in their gardens, and rolled the leaves onto clay slabs to make seven leaf soap dishes. I gifted these to the ceramics studio community. Unintenionally inspired by the Korok forest spirit masks from Zelda. Yahaha🌱 Direct prints are a new exploration in ceramics for me. I'm enjoying the layers of meaning that are added to a piece by these textures, impressions of the site and the experience that are both more real and more abstract than anything I would have sculpted on my own. . . . #ceramics #keramik #pottery #handbuilt #natureprints #oregonartist #artistresidency #portlandartist #pdxartist

5 months ago

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Process pics of the net mugs at @chehalemculturalcenter, with texture created by pressing ghost net from @surfriderkauai into soft slabs of clay. I love the element of randomness that comes into play with this process. Lots of fun choosing how to divide up the slab into mug shapes.
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#pottery #ceramics #keramik #handbuilt #slabmug #oceanplastic #fishingnet #fishingrope #oceaninspired #oregonartist #portlandartist #pdxartist #reclaimedmaterials

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Process pics of the net mugs at @chehalemculturalcenter, with texture created by pressing ghost net from @surfriderkauai into soft slabs of clay. I love the element of randomness that comes into play with this process. Lots of fun choosing how to divide up the slab into mug shapes. . . . #pottery #ceramics #keramik #handbuilt #slabmug #oceanplastic #fishingnet #fishingrope #oceaninspired #oregonartist #portlandartist #pdxartist #reclaimedmaterials

6 months ago

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Sneak peek at new net mugs from my residency at @chehalemculturalcenter! These mugs were my first experiment using reclaimed fishing rope and net in my ceramics. I used some of my favorite bits of ghost net collected by @surfriderkauai, washed up on Kauai beaches from around the Pacific Ocean. Now that I've done it, I'm lowkey amazed it took this long for the rope~x~clay crossover to happen.

These five mugs will be headed to Chehalem Cultural Center's holiday fundraiser to support their future artists in residence 💞
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#pottery #ceramics #keramik #handbuilt #slabmug #oceanplastic #fishingnet #fishingrope #oceaninspired #oregonartist #portlandartist #pdxartist #reclaimedmaterials

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Sneak peek at new net mugs from my residency at @chehalemculturalcenter! These mugs were my first experiment using reclaimed fishing rope and net in my ceramics. I used some of my favorite bits of ghost net collected by @surfriderkauai, washed up on Kauai beaches from around the Pacific Ocean. Now that I've done it, I'm lowkey amazed it took this long for the rope~x~clay crossover to happen. These five mugs will be headed to Chehalem Cultural Center's holiday fundraiser to support their future artists in residence 💞 . . . #pottery #ceramics #keramik #handbuilt #slabmug #oceanplastic #fishingnet #fishingrope #oceaninspired #oregonartist #portlandartist #pdxartist #reclaimedmaterials

6 months ago

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