Lauren A. Mills Bio

Lauren A. Mills has won national acclaim both as a sculptor and earlier for her career as a book author and illustrator. Her work has exhibited in galleries and museums across the country including at theNational Museum of Women in the Arts, where she was the key note eaker, Lyman Allen Art Musem, Radcliffe College, Barnum Museum, and the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts. Her sculpture, “Legacy” is installed at the Heritage Park Trail, Lake Winona, Indiana and “Ebeneezer Reflecting” is in the permanent collection at the Salmagundi Club in NYC. Her book illustrations are included in the collec-tions of Keene State University, University of Connecticut at Storrs, and the Mazza Collection , Finlay, Ohio. Mills’ books have won top awards, including, The Golden Kite Best Book Award and the Charlotte Award for best picture book. Her stories have been performed by storytellers and actors across the country and on the radio and The Rag Coat was performed as a ballet by the University of Utah. Lauren Mills is an elected member of the National Sculpture Society, the National Sculptors’ Guild and the Salmagundi Club. Mills was invited to participate in the 8th exhibition of the Florence Biennale in Florence, Italy.

AWARDS FOR SCULPTURE:
Gold Medal - Allied Artists of America 2006
Finalists - Art Renewal Center International Salon 2007, 2008/2009
Finalists - National Sculpture Society 2007, 2009
Exceptional Merit Award - Portrait Society of America Competition 2008
Award of Merit - American Women Artist Exhibition 2008
First Place - Portrait Society of America’s Members’ Showcase 2009
Honorable Mention - Art Renewal Center International Salon Exhibition 2008/09
Merit Award - Salmugundi Club 2009 Non-Members Exhibition
People’s Choice & Merit Award -Connecticut Society of Portait artists 2010 Exhibition
First Place - Salmugundi Club 2009 Members’ Holiday Exhibition 2009
Finalists - American Art Renewal International Salon Exhibition 2010
Finalist - Grand Central Academy Sculpture Competition for June 2010

After Mills received both her Bachelors and Masters degrees of Art in California, she studied sculpture three years total at the Lyme Academy of Fine Art and egg tempera in Europe and the United States, and sculpture with Eugene Daub and Sandy Scott at Brookgreen Gardens. In 2009 and 2010 Mills also studied classical drawing and painting from the ateliers: Grand Central Academy and Bay Area ClassicalArt Atelier. Lauren Mills was trained in traditional methods passed down by the masters of the Euro-pean Renaissance. Her work is greatly influenced by the 19th century sculptors and the Pre-Raphaelites for their focus of the natural world as well as their sense of mythical wonder.

Lauren Mills has taught at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and at Paier College of Art, both in Connecti-cut, and at the Hartsbrook School and privately in Massachusetts. She co- founded and curated the Beardsley Gallery and Art Guild in Wilton Connecticut in 2009 -2010.

Lauren Mills’ sculpture has been reviewed in American Artist Magazine and American Art Collector. For her book illustrations, The New York Times described her watercolors as “alluring....Whistlerian to the point of PreRaphaelitism.” Smithsonian awarded The Rag Coat with the Season’s Choice Award and described Mills’ watercolors as “bewitching” . The Washington Post wrote about The Rag Coat, “Mills’ story is exquisite and complex, while her pictures are palely watercolor radiant."

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