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ShaDonnah Miller Cleveland OH _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Education 2023 Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Exhibitions 2023 - Ebony Ball, Thwing Center at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 2023 - In Our Skin: A Group Exhibition celebrating Black voices, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio 2022 The Astral Trials: Comic Pop Up Opening/Book Sale, Future Ink Graphics, Cleveland, Ohio 2019 Show Off: Heights High Student Exhibition, Heights Arts, Cleveland Ohio Awards & Scholarships CIA Gund Family Scholarship CIA Grant Federal Pell Grant Federal S.E.O Grant Ohio College Opportunity Grant Professional Experience 2023-Present City Year Americorps Member 2021-2023 Student Ambassador at the Cleveland Institute of Art 2019-21 Worked at the George Gund Library at the Cleveland Institute of Art 2018-19 Student Intern, Heights Arts Gallery Artist Statement As a child, I would watch all sorts of cartoons, some from America and others from Japan, otherwise known as Anime. It had a major impact on me and my style of art making because the style and subject matter of those cartoons appealed to me and my creative imagination. In addition to this, these cartoons are also a blueprint for my imagination to use them as a way to escape reality and flee to a place where I had control over myself and things around me. As I grew older, I realized that none of the characters in these shows actually looked like me, and thus had a negative effect on how I viewed myself as a woman of color. Knowing that was the cause inspired me to draw people that were familiar to me in the anime style that I adored, using a theory of psychology to reverse the mindset I had growing up. I also liked creating my own characters with their own storyline while being loosely based on certain iconic figures like dragons or fox spirits and the like. My work is based in the digital world, as that is where cartoons and anime are born and flourish. While the medium lives in technology, my work can be viewed in both traditional and digital so that it can be seen by a broader audience. My works are a mix of storyboarding along with character designing, often having the character interacting with the environment or the environment being changed as a result of the characters actions.…ShaDonnah Miller Cleveland OH _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Education 2023 Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Exhibitions 2023 - Ebony Ball, Thwing Center at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 2023 - In Our Skin: A Group Exhibition celebrating Black voices, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio 2022 The Astral Trials: Comic Pop Up Opening/Book Sale, Future Ink Graphics, Cleveland, Ohio 2019 Show Off: Heights High Student Exhibition, Heights Arts, Cleveland Ohio Awards & Scholarships CIA Gund Family Scholarship CIA Grant Federal Pell Grant Federal S.E.O Grant Ohio College Opportunity Grant Professional Experience 2023-Present City Year Americorps Member 2021-2023 Student Ambassador at the Cleveland Institute of Art 2019-21 Worked at the George Gund Library at the Cleveland Institute of Art 2018-19 Student Intern, Heights Arts Gallery Artist Statement As a child, I would watch all sorts of cartoons, some from America and others from Japan, otherwise known as Anime. It had a major impact on me and my style of art making because the style and subject matter of those cartoons appealed to me and my creative imagination. In addition to this, these cartoons are also a blueprint for my imagination to use them as a way to escape reality and flee to a place where I had control over myself and things around me. As I grew older, I realized that none of the characters in these shows actually looked like me, and thus had a negative effect on how I viewed myself as a woman of color. Knowing that was the cause inspired me to draw people that were familiar to me in the anime style that I adored, using a theory of psychology to reverse the mindset I had growing up. I also liked creating my own characters with their own storyline while being loosely based on certain iconic figures like dragons or fox spirits and the like. My work is based in the digital world, as that is where cartoons and anime are born and flourish. While the medium lives in technology, my work can be viewed in both traditional and digital so that it can be seen by a broader audience. My works are a mix of storyboarding along with character designing, often having the character interacting with the environment or the environment being changed as a result of the characters actions.

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ShaDonnah Miller Cleveland OH _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Education 2023 Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Exhibitions 2023 - Ebony Ball, Thwing Center at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 2023 - In Our Skin: A Group Exhibition celebrating Black voices, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio 2022 The Astral Trials: Comic Pop Up Opening/Book Sale, Future Ink Graphics, Cleveland, Ohio 2019 Show Off: Heights High Student Exhibition, Heights Arts, Cleveland Ohio Awards & Scholarships CIA Gund Family Scholarship CIA Grant Federal Pell Grant Federal S.E.O Grant Ohio College Opportunity Grant Professional Experience 2023-Present City Year Americorps Member 2021-2023 Student Ambassador at the Cleveland Institute of Art 2019-21 Worked at the George Gund Library at the Cleveland Institute of Art 2018-19 Student Intern, Heights Arts Gallery Artist Statement As a child, I would watch all sorts of cartoons, some from America and others from Japan, otherwise known as Anime. It had a major impact on me and my style of art making because the style and subject matter of those cartoons appealed to me and my creative imagination. In addition to this, these cartoons are also a blueprint for my imagination to use them as a way to escape reality and flee to a place where I had control over myself and things around me. As I grew older, I realized that none of the characters in these shows actually looked like me, and thus had a negative effect on how I viewed myself as a woman of color. Knowing that was the cause inspired me to draw people that were familiar to me in the anime style that I adored, using a theory of psychology to reverse the mindset I had growing up. I also liked creating my own characters with their own storyline while being loosely based on certain iconic figures like dragons or fox spirits and the like. My work is based in the digital world, as that is where cartoons and anime are born and flourish. While the medium lives in technology, my work can be viewed in both traditional and digital so that it can be seen by a broader audience. My works are a mix of storyboarding along with character designing, often having the character interacting with the environment or the environment being changed as a result of the characters actions.…ShaDonnah Miller Cleveland OH _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Education 2023 Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Exhibitions 2023 - Ebony Ball, Thwing Center at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 2023 - In Our Skin: A Group Exhibition celebrating Black voices, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio 2022 The Astral Trials: Comic Pop Up Opening/Book Sale, Future Ink Graphics, Cleveland, Ohio 2019 Show Off: Heights High Student Exhibition, Heights Arts, Cleveland Ohio Awards & Scholarships CIA Gund Family Scholarship CIA Grant Federal Pell Grant Federal S.E.O Grant Ohio College Opportunity Grant Professional Experience 2023-Present City Year Americorps Member 2021-2023 Student Ambassador at the Cleveland Institute of Art 2019-21 Worked at the George Gund Library at the Cleveland Institute of Art 2018-19 Student Intern, Heights Arts Gallery Artist Statement As a child, I would watch all sorts of cartoons, some from America and others from Japan, otherwise known as Anime. It had a major impact on me and my style of art making because the style and subject matter of those cartoons appealed to me and my creative imagination. In addition to this, these cartoons are also a blueprint for my imagination to use them as a way to escape reality and flee to a place where I had control over myself and things around me. As I grew older, I realized that none of the characters in these shows actually looked like me, and thus had a negative effect on how I viewed myself as a woman of color. Knowing that was the cause inspired me to draw people that were familiar to me in the anime style that I adored, using a theory of psychology to reverse the mindset I had growing up. I also liked creating my own characters with their own storyline while being loosely based on certain iconic figures like dragons or fox spirits and the like. My work is based in the digital world, as that is where cartoons and anime are born and flourish. While the medium lives in technology, my work can be viewed in both traditional and digital so that it can be seen by a broader audience. My works are a mix of storyboarding along with character designing, often having the character interacting with the environment or the environment being changed as a result of the characters actions.

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ShaDonnah Miller
Cleveland OH
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Education
2023 Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Exhibitions

2023 - Ebony Ball, Thwing Center at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

2023 - In Our Skin: A Group Exhibition celebrating Black voices, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

2022 The Astral Trials: Comic Pop Up Opening/Book Sale, Future Ink Graphics, Cleveland, Ohio

2019 Show Off: Heights High Student Exhibition, Heights Arts, Cleveland Ohio

Awards & Scholarships
CIA Gund Family Scholarship
CIA Grant
Federal Pell Grant
Federal S.E.O Grant
Ohio College Opportunity Grant

Professional Experience
2023-Present City Year Americorps Member
2021-2023 Student Ambassador at the Cleveland Institute of Art
2019-21 Worked at the George Gund Library at the Cleveland Institute of Art
2018-19 Student Intern, Heights Arts Gallery

Artist Statement

As a child, I would watch all sorts of cartoons, some from America and others from Japan, otherwise known as Anime. It had a major impact on me and my style of art making because the style and subject matter of those cartoons appealed to me and my creative imagination. In addition to this, these cartoons are also a blueprint for my imagination to use them as a way to escape reality and flee to a place where I had control over myself and things around me. As I grew older, I realized that none of the characters in these shows actually looked like me, and thus had a negative effect on how I viewed myself as a woman of color. Knowing that was the cause inspired me to draw people that were familiar to me in the anime style that I adored, using a theory of psychology to reverse the mindset I had growing up. I also liked creating my own characters with their own storyline while being loosely based on certain iconic figures like dragons or fox spirits and the like.

My work is based in the digital world, as that is where cartoons and anime are born and flourish. While the medium lives in technology, my work can be viewed in both traditional and digital so that it can be seen by a broader audience. My works are a mix of storyboarding along with character designing, often having the character interacting with the environment or the environment being changed as a result of the characters actions.