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Michael Miller's an artist that I've been working with probably about twenty years and
represent his work. This show at the MAC came about, we were talking about doing some, well
some teacher student shows.
I think one of the strengths of looking through this exhibition and looking at the work that
our alumni have produced is that Michael helped them, you know, find their individual voice
and helped them to, you know, get started on their path to maturity as artists.
The education that he gave me and my peers was, it was like we were at an ivy league
school. In fact, some ivy league programs don't have professors of his quality. It was,
like, really amazing.
Before I entered into his classes, I was afraid to really do what I wanted. I was approaching,
you know, a blank canvas with like these expectations of what, you know, I thought people wanted
to see and he told me to just go for it, that there was no shame in making any mistakes
that no one was going to judge me or to think that I was a weirdo for making what I wanted
to make. If it's a word, it emboldened me. It made me confident. It was a good feeling.
One thing I always like to point out to students in critique setting is that this is a very
close environment, here in the university. It's much easier to listen to criticism here
than it ever will be again. It's a lot easier listening to criticism in a painting critique
than it is to listen to criticism on the front page of the Dallas Morning News. I think that
this proves it very well that students are well prepared for careers in the arts by the
time they get out of our university.