Tom Miller (artist)

Thomas Patton Miller (1945-2000), ónyé aha ya bụ Tom Miller, bụ ónyé na-ese ihe na Baltimore nke a maara nke ọma màkà oche ya "Afro-Deco". A mụrụ ya na Sandtown-Winchester ma gaa Carver Vocational Technical High School. N'afọ 1963, ọ natara agụmakwụkwọ na Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Mgbè ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ, ọ kụziri nka n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ọha na eze Baltimore City ruo afọ iri abụọ tupu ọ laghachi na MICA màkà MFA ya, nke ọ natara na 1987.

Miller gbanwere ọrụ aka ọdịnala Baltimore nke ihe osise na oche na-ese n'elu ikpo okwu maka nyocha nke akụkọ ihe méré eme na agbụrụ site na agba, whimsy, wit, na imewe. N'ụzọ ejiji, ọrụ ya "nwere ọtụtụ mgbọrọgwụ, ọkachasị nka Africa na nka deco. " Ónyé ọkacha mmasị n'ógbè ahụ, "A na-egosipụta ọrụ Miller mgbè niile na gallery Baltimore, ọ na-enwekwa ndị na-eso ụzọ n'etiti ndị na-anakọta ihe ebe a, ndị na-echekarị ruo afọ abụọ iji zụta ihe atụ nke ọrụ ya. Ngwongwo na ihe ọkpụkpụ Miller bụ isiokwu nke nnukwu ihe ngosi na Baltimore Museum of Art na Maryland Art Place na 1995, a nọchitekwara anya ya n'ọtụtụ ihe ngosi dị mkpà nke gara mba ahụ. Site na 1991 ruo 1998, nke Kọmitii ndụmọdụ nke ónyé isi ọbọdọ na nka na ọdịbendị nyere iwu, o mepụtara ihe osise isii na isiokwu ndị metụtara mpako agbụrụ na obodo ndị isi ojii.

N'ịbụ onye na-eme enyi nwoke n'ụzọ doro anya, Miller chọpụtara na 1989 na ọ nwere nje HIV. Ụfọdụ n'ime ọrụ ya ndị ọzọ "na-emetụta isiokwu zuru ụwa ọnụ nke ịnakwere ọnwụ". Ọ nwụrụ n'afọ 2000 site na nsogbụ metụtara ọrịa AIDS. Ọrụ ya dị na nchịkọta nke Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Historical Society, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture na Baltimore, MD; National Museum of African American History na Culture na Washington, DC; na David C. Driskell Center na Mahadum Maryland, na College Park, MD, n'etiti nchịkọta ụlọ ọrụ na nke onwe.

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