Nancy Winship Milliken Studio is known for its site-specific, monumental, nature-centric public art. I engage both urban and rural areas to highlight the local natural and cultural histories of place with a goal of creating natural sanctuary art environments. 

 As an environmental artist working in different mediums with the common theme of a reverence for this earth, I explore approaches that strengthen our connection to the land. The practice of the studio is as much about process as it is about object. The different smells, textures, and raw sensation of making the form is all a part of informing the outcome of the work. The work engages the elements of the landscape such as wind, sun and rain allowing the environment to participate in the kinetic actions and responses of the sculpture. The studio is committed to using our artistic platform as an expression of  environmental, climate and social change through engagement in community, collaborations, and mentoring creative environmental conservation leaders. Each project engages a team of artisans, poets, environmentalists, builders, students and farmers, to work together in response to the landscape, people and animals surrounding us. The studio strives to use sustainable and re-claimed materials, often re-using cast off materials from cultural usage or past installations.

I care deeply about collaborating with local communities and municipalities to connect nature in public spaces.

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