MEET ANN MILLER

Ann Miller Smith creates art through a colorful lens and a love of pattern and texture. She is interested in the use of bold and unexpected color palettes, as well as a continuous experimentation with new elements and mediums. Smith paints to tell a story and her work explores the endless possibilities of the human experience. Expressive of adventure, Smith’s paintings urge the viewer to use their imagination and create a narrative of their own.

Smith lives and works in Wilmington, North Carolina. She studied Studio Art at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (BA, 2021) and Fashion Development at North Carolina State University (BS, 2015). Smith was the recipient of the Dorothy Gillespie Scholarship in Art and the Ann Flack Boseman Scholarship. Her solo exhibition, “The Reach of My Arms” was featured in 2020 at Ann Flack Boseman Gallery.  

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EDUCATION

2021

BA in Studio Art, Minor in Entrepreneurship, University of North Carolina Wilmington; Wilmington, NC

2015

BS in Fashion and Textile Management, North Carolina State University; Raleigh, NC

2012

Certificate in Fashion Illustration and Digital Photography, Lorenzo de Medici Institute; Florence, Italy

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023

Group Exhibition, Chroma, Paradigm Gallery; Philadelphia, PA (Curators: Alicia Puig, CEO of PxP Contemporary/Director of Create! Magazine and Ekaterina Popova, Founder of Create! Magazine) (Forthcoming)

Group Exhibition, Places to See, 311 Gallery; Raleigh, NC 

Group Exhibition, The Art Room Spring Show, The Art Room; Greenville, SC

Group Exhibition, Wilmington Art Association Spring Show, Hannah Block Community Arts Center; Wilmington, NC (Juror: Ginny Lassiter, Founder: Sunset River Marketplace Art Gallery)

2022

Group Exhibition, Wilmington Art Association Spring Show, Hannah Block Community Arts Center; Wilmington, NC (Juror: Beth Handler Riebe, Founder and Director, LOCAL: Art + Ideas)

Group Exhibition, Women In Art, Las Laguna Art Gallery; Laguna Beach, CA

Group Exhibition, The Visionary Gala, VAE Raleigh; Raleigh, NC

2021

Group Exhibition, Fall Senior Exhibition, CAB Art Gallery; Wilmington, NC (catalogue)

Solo Exhibition, The Reach of Our Arms, Ann Flack Boseman Gallery; Wilmington, NC

Group Exhibition, Figurative, Art Show International Gallery; Los Angeles, CA

HONORS AND AWARDS

2021

Dorothy Gillespie Scholarship in Art, University of North Carolina Wilmington; Wilmington, NC

2020

Ann Flack Boseman Scholarship, University of North Carolina Wilmington; Wilmington, NC

PUBLICATIONS

2022

“Daily Inspiration: Meet Ann Miller Smith” VoyageRaleigh Magazine, August 19, 2022.

2021

Cierra Noffke, “Ann Miller Finch: The Road to Becoming an Artist,” Flair Magazine, May 14, 2021, 30-32.

2021

Caroline Straubel, “The Reach of Our Arms,” The Seahawk, March 6, 2021

2021

“Feast of Famine: A Collection of Flash Lit and Art,” The Publishing Laboratory, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 9.