RICK MILLS
Professor

Rick Mills is a glass and mixed-media sculptor and Professor of Art at the University of Hawaii, Manoa where he is chair of the glass program. He received his BFA from The Ohio State University and an MFA from the University of Hawaii.  In 1986 and 2004  Mills received a Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship, and in 1988, he was a research fellow at the Royal College of Art in London, England.  In 1992 and 1998 he taught glass casting at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington.

Through the years, his work has been widely exhibited locally, nationally and internationally in places such as the International Glass Kanazawa 1990, Japan, Crossings 1989 France-Hawaii;  solo exhibitions at The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii in 1995,  Friesen Gallery in Seattle, Washington in 1997 & 2000 and at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington in 1999. 

In 1998 he completed a large glass frieze commissioned by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) for the Hawaii Convention Center and in 1999 received their Individual Artist Fellowship Award. In  November of 2003, he completed another large glass wall relief sculpture for Leilehua High school in Wahiawa as part of the SFCA's Artists in the Schools Program. Currently he has undertaken the Maui Memorial Medical Center project commissioned by the SFCA to create a free standing glass curtain wall scheduled for completion in Ocotber 2006.  In 2002 he received the Baciu Award from the Artists of Hawaii Exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.   His sculptures and blown glass are in numerous private and public collections such as the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark, Royal College of Art, London, England.