Guest Curated by Jenny Haack

Ten years ago, a beautifully optimistic legacy endowment was gifted to our community by local brothers, Nolan and Richard Miller, with the express intent to build collaboration–through service–between Antioch College and the nonprofits of Yellow Springs. At the time of the bequest, though, the fate of Antioch College and its students was uncertain and tenuous, having just been closed.

Today, their legacy endures in the rich experiential service learning of over 200 Antioch College students who have served in local nonprofit organizations through Nolan and Richard’s namesake Miller Fellowships program. This Spring, Yellow Springs Community Foundation’s nonprofit center will share space and energy on the campus of Antioch College, working in collaboration in our historic Antioch Hall.

This exhibition celebrates their vision and their lives. Emerging from humble and disadvantaged beginnings, through adversity and scarcity, to nearly a century of lifelong creative practice, Nolan (1907-2006) became a much beloved Professor of Writing at Antioch College (1946-1972) and his brother Richard (1915-2009), deaf since infancy, became a successful visual artist.

We have organized this exhibition, in order to emphasize practice and process, “salon-style”, with sketches, gestures, drafts, and notes holding equal importance to works deemed finished. These tiny fragments of visual and literary ephemera mark creative victories and illuminate waypoints of creative inquiry.

This exhibition is generously supported by:

Antioch College, The Janet Wheeler Fund for the Arts at Antioch, Yellow Springs Community Foundation, The Antioch College CO-OP Program, and The Miller Fellowships Program.

With lending support and research of the Miller Brothers collection by Faith Morgan.

For more information about the exhibition, please contact Jennifer Wenker, Creative Director of the Herndon Gallery: jwenker@antiochcollege.edu.

Sweet and savory appetizers, beverages and warm community vibes!

Free and open to the public.

http://www.antiochcollege.edu/herndon