Nancy Winship Milliken Studio creates site-specific, public environmental installations for both indoor and outdoor, urban and rural sites.
SOLO COMMISSIONED EXHIBITIONS
2027 Brooks School, North Andover, Massachusetts, indoor
2023 The Nature of Memory, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Cornish, New Hampshire, indoor
2022 Nancy Winship Milliken: Varied and Alive, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT (with Eliot Hayes Lothrop and Bee the Change), outdoor
2019 Earth Press Project: Dispatch from Gaia, McCarthy Art Gallery, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont (with Chard deNiord), outdoor and indoor
Earth Press Project: Witness, Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts (with Eliot Lothrop), outdoor
Earth Press Project: I Pledge, Von Auersperg Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts, indoor and outdoor
COMMISSIONED SITE-SPECIFIC PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORK
2027 Brooks School, North Andover, Massachusetts, permanent outdoor
2025 Waterline, Main Street Projects, Burlington, Vermont, permanent outdoor
2019 Pasture Song II, Massachusetts, private commission, permanent outdoor
2019 Stall, Human/Nature, Heritage Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts, temporary outdoor
2018 Pasture Song, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, temporary outdoor, four year installation, deinstall 2022
2016 Hero, Davis Barn, private commissions, permanent indoor and outdoor
2014 Windscape, Of Land and Local, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, Vermont, temporary outdoor
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Postcards from the Field: Contemporary Pastoralism, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Postcards from the Field: Contemporary Pastoralism, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, Massachusetts
Call of the Wind, DeeDee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, Massachusetts
2013 Your Statement is Inside, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
2009 In the Skin of the Other: Installations by Nancy Winship Milliken, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
2008 Losing Language, Hartsbrook School Farm, Hadley, Massachusetts.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Illuminated Worlds, Kent Museum, Adamant, Vermont
Transmissions Online Zine, Ecoartspace, https://issuu.com/ecoartspace/docs/transmissionsonlinezine
2023 Fiber Art Now, curated printed magazine exhibition, Fiber Reimagined
Fiber Reimagined, Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia.
Earth’s Materials: Perennial Perspectives in the Arts, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, Vermont
2021 The Earth Bestows, New Perennial Project, All Souls Integrated Gathering, Shelburne, Vermont
2020 Exposed Vermont Edition, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont
The Place Where Project, online, publicly generated
2018 Breath and Matter, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston Massachusetts
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, North Bennington, Vermont
Space/Time: Cordwood, (continued collaboration) Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, Vermont
2017 Love/Lust, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Nexus, SculptureNow, The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts
Of Land and Local, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, Vermont (commissioned)
Space/Time: Cordwood, (collaboration) Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, Vermont
2015 Twice as Good, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Please Sit on the Art, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, Massachusetts
Pioneer Women, Eastworks, Easthampton, Massachusetts Points North, Room 83 Spring, Watertown, Massachusetts Secret Shelters, Heritage Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts
Chesterwood/Boston Sculptors Gallery Outdoor Sculpture, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
2014 Sketchy Sculptors, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Alumni Art Show, Westminster School, Simsbury, Connecticut
Vision/Visones, Museo Convento de Santo Domingo, Qorikancha, The Temple of the Sun, Cuzco, Peru
2013 Sculpture Scoop, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Connections/Conexions, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, Massachusetts
Convergence, Christian Science Plaza, Boston Sculptors Gallery and Christian Science Plaza, Boston Massachusetts
2012 Art in the Box, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Graduate Auction, Boston, Massachusetts
Pressing Matters, University Museum of Contemporary Art, invitational letterpress portfolio, Amherst, Massachusetts
Invested Landscape, Nave Gallery, curator, Somerville, Massachusetts
I Rise and Go Now, Amherst Biennial, Amherst, Massachusetts
Height, Width, Depth, Time: Boston Sculptors Celebrates 20 Years, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2011 Projected Image, Artstrand Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
In the Zone III, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Juror Christine Temin, Brattleboro, Vermont
Pioneer Women, Jasper Rand Museum, Westfield, Massachusetts
2010 Pleiades, Amherst Biennial, Amherst, Massachusetts
Spring Art Competition Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Pioneer Women, Wonderland, Paper City Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Alumnae Art Show Renbrook School, West Hartford, Connecticut
Sacred=Art?, Nave Gallery, curator, Somerville, Massachusetts
2009 After Poe: Works of Mystery and Imagination, University of Maine Farmington Gallery, Farmington, Maine
Unofficial, Art in the Heart of the City Gallery, New Britain, Connecticut
Visions Twelve, Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
The Second Class, The Nave Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts
EDUCATION
2008 Masters of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Arts and Design
1984 Bachelors of Science, University of Vermont
AWARDED GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Self-Designed Artist Residency, Vieques, PR National Wildlife Refuge
2023 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Residency
2021 Vermont Arts Council, Creation Grant
2020 Vermont Arts Council, Artist Development Grant 2020 New Perennials Project Covid Rapid Relief Fund
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2019 to 2023: Selected as a community partner in the creative arts for the New Perennials project in Middlebury College’s Environmental Studies program. This project builds on the work of the Land Institute and Ecosphere Studies which provide experiential learning with community partners, offering new perspectives on expansion of ideas of what is possible.
2018 Co-lead the development and execution of the Feverish World Symposium. This 3+day symposium and art event explored questions of bridging the silos of art and sciences through panels and roundtables, talks and presentations by invited speakers, art and performances by local and invited artists, and open forums including a "Tent City Commons" at the University of Vermont campus and at other area locations.
2017 Humanities Community Scholar for Economics for the Anthropocene: Climate Justice Cohort. This program provided international graduate research and training for McGill, York and Vermont University students by connecting ecological and economic realities to the challenges of the Anthropocene.
2016 to present: Board of Directors for the Shelburne Craft School, as member, Secretary and President. Since 1945, Shelburne Craft School has been offering hands-on education in artisanal crafts—helping individuals experience the joys of making, while cultivating confidence, character, and community.
GUEST LECTURER AND MENTORSHIPS
Guest lecturer and visiting artist at several institutions including Middlebury College, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Marlboro College, Deerfield Academy, Westminster School.
Developed a mentorship program in which students from all over the nation join the studio for college credit or funded by college grant programs.
PRESS AND MEDIA
Iterant Magazine, featured artist, summer 2023
Fiber Art Now curated print magazine exhibition, Fiber Reimagined, April 2023
Cynthia Close, Art New England, Spotlight Review: Nancy Winship Milliken: Varied and Alive, P. 72, July/August 2022
Large Scale Environmental Sculptures on View This Summer, The Hinesburg Record, June 2022, cover page
WCAX, Shelburne Museum Adds New Exhibits, May 25, 2022
Scooter MacMilllan, Charlotte News, Milliken’s creations help to celebrate Shelburne
Museum’s anniversary, May 19, 2022
Phyl Newbeck, Charlotte News, Nancy Winship Milliken: Bringing Her Love of the
Environment to Her Art. December 2, 2021, p8
Pam Ellerson, Concord Journal, The Art of Change: Vermont Artist Helping TRansform
Minute Man Park
Kelly Halkias, Berkshire Eagle, The North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show
UpCountry Magazine North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, July/August 2018, p21
Mass Poetry, Breath and Matter, July 2018
Boston Voyager, Thought Provokers Series, "Check Out Nancy Winship Milliken's Artwork", March 2018
Art New England, Cynthia Close, Spotlight Review: Of Land and Local, January/February, 2018, P66
Rachel Elizabeth Jones, Art Review : Of Land and Local BCA Center and Shelburne Farms, Seven Days, October 25, 2017
Seven Days, Amy Lily, In Montpelier 'SiteTime' Installation Honors Cordwood, December 27, 2017
Sculpture Magazine, Christine Temin "Roberly Bell and Boston Sculptors at Chesterwood", March 2016
Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, "Exhibitions of ceramics, photography, presses, sculpture", December, 01, 2015
Video, Jon Alden, Nancy Winship Milliken at DeDee Shattuck Gallery 2015
The Berkshire Eagle, Charles Bonenti, “Art Al Fresco at The Mount and at Chesterwood”, July 30, 2015
Art New England, Charles Bonenti, “Boston Sculptors in the Berkshires”, July/August 2015
Seven Days, Xian Chiang-Waren, “Eyewitness: Sculptor Nancy Winship Milliken”, October 2014
Seven Days, Xian Chiang-Waren, “BCA's 'Of Land and Local' Exhibit Keeps Growing”, October 2014
VIDEO: WCAX interview and coverage for Of Land and Local, October 2014
People, Preview Massachusetts Magazine, July 2014, P3
Valley Press, Installation Artist brings Students into the Creative Process, 2014, P4
Westminster Bulliten, Creating Landscape Art from Natural Materials, Fall 2013, P65
Sculpture Magazine, Marty Carlock, “Convergence, Boston Sculptors Gallery at the Christian Science Plaza”, March 2014, PP 75,76,
Artscope Magazine, August 2013, Suzanne Volmer, “Convergence”
Amy Trinidad, “Installation Highlights Beauty of Wool”, American Sheep Industry April, 2013
The Boston Globe, What's Up at Boston-area Art Galleries, January 9, 2013
Steve Pfarrer, “An Epic Vision: Double Edge Theatre produces 'Odyssey' in heroic fashion”, The Hampshire Gazette, July 13, 1012, Page B1
The Hampshire Gazette, Transformative Process, March 15, 2012, Page C1
Rural Art Blogspot, The Odyssey of Double Edge Theatre, August 22, 2011
The River radio interview
Boston Globe, In Ashfield, an ‘Odyssey’ for the senses, August 2, 2011
Chris Rohman, “Wool Sails in the Sunset, Local artists make Double Edge Theatre's Odyssey a Shared Journey”. Valley Advocate Thursday, July 28, 2011
Vermont Art Zine, REVIEW: "In the Zone" at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center,Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Hampshire Gazette, Sharing Biennial Moments, Sharing Reflections on 'Art in Expected and Unexpected Places', December 1, 2010
The Hampshire Gazette, In Our Opinion: Amherst's Artistic Outreach, Friday November 12, 2010
The Hampshire Gazette, Painting the Town with Art: Works by Forty Artists Featured in Amherst's First Biennial Celebration, Bonnie Wells, Thursday October 14, 2010
Feltworks Blog, Felt Installations, http://feltworks.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/felt-installations/
The Hampshire Gazette, 'Finding Wonderland': Art Curator Terry Rooney Creates Dreamscape in FormerHolyoke Warehouse, July 22, 2010
Artscope Magazine, The Nave Asks: Sacred =Art? Pg. 26, May/June, 2010
Taylor Polites, “Year in Review: Three To Watch in 2009”, Artscope Magazine, Pg. 50-51, November/December, 2008
