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CURRICULUM VITAE
Winship Milliken Studio is a place-based environmental art studio committed to designing interactive spaces of art and nature that invite viewers to find joy and a re-connection to the environment. The studio is known for its site-specific, monumental, nature-centric public art in both urban and rural areas.
COMMISSIONED SITE-SPECIFIC PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORK
2022–2026 Lakebone, Main Street Projects, Burlington, Vermont, permanent outdoor
2025 The Institute for Sustainable Schools, Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, Vermont, permanent indoor
2019 Pasture Song II, Massachusetts, private commission, permanent outdoor
2019 Stall, Human/Nature, Heritage Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts, temporary outdoor
2018-2022 Pasture Song, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts,
2016 Hero, Davis Barn, private commissions, Massachusetts, permanent indoor and outdoor
2014 Windscape, Of Land and Local, Burlington City Arts, Shelburne, Vermont, temporary outdoor
SOLO COMMISSIONED EXHIBITIONS
2027 Brooks School, North Andover, Massachusetts, indoor
Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, Vermont, indoor/outdoor
2023 The Nature of Memory, Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, Cornish, New Hampshire, indoor
2022 Nancy Winship Milliken: Varied and Alive, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT (with Building Heritage and Bee the Change), outdoor
2019 Earth Press Project: Dispatch from Gaia, McCarthy Art Gallery, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont (with Chard deNiord), outdoor and indoor
Earth Press Project: Witness, Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts (with Eliot Lothrop), outdoor
Earth Press Project: I Pledge, Von Auersperg Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts, indoor and outdoor
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Postcards from the Field, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Postcards from the Field, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, Massachusetts
Call of the Wind, DeeDee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, Massachusetts
2013 Your Statement is Inside, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2009 In the Skin of the Other: Installations by Nancy Winship Milliken, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Timeless Pastoral, Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, Vermont
Parson’s Gallery, Searsport, Maine
2024 Illuminated Worlds, Kent Museum, Adamant, Vermont
Transmissions Online Zine, Ecoartspace
2023 Fiber Art Now, curated printed magazine exhibition, Fiber Reimagined
Fiber Reimagined, Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia
Earth’s Materials: Perennial Perspectives in the Arts, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, Vermont
2021 The Earth Bestows, New Perennials Project, All Souls Integrated Gathering, Shelburne, Vermont
2020 Exposed Vermont Edition, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont
The Place Where Project, online, publicly generated
2018 Breath and Matter, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, North Bennington, Vermont
Space/Time: Cordwood, (continued collaboration) Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, Vermont
2017 Love/Lust, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Nexus, SculptureNow, The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts
Of Land and Local, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, Vermont (commissioned)
Space/Time: Cordwood, (collaboration) Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, Vermont
2015 Twice as Good, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Please Sit on the Art, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, Massachusetts
Pioneer Women, Eastworks, Easthampton, Massachusetts
Points North, Room 83 Spring, Watertown, Massachusetts
Secret Shelters, Heritage Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts
Chesterwood/Boston Sculptors Gallery Outdoor Sculpture, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
2014 Sketchy Sculptors, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Alumni Art Show, Westminster School, Simsbury, Connecticut
Vision/Visones, Museo Convento de Santo Domingo, Qorikancha, The Temple of the Sun, Cuzco, Peru
2013 Sculpture Scoop, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Connections/Conexions, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, Massachusetts
Convergence, Christian Science Plaza, Boston Sculptors Gallery and Christian Science Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts
2012 Art in the Box, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Graduate Auction, Boston, Massachusetts
Pressing Matters, University Museum of Contemporary Art, invitational letterpress portfolio, Amherst, Massachusetts
Invested Landscape, Nave Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts
I Rise and Go Now, Amherst Biennial, Amherst, Massachusetts
Height, Width, Depth, Time: Boston Sculptors Celebrates 20 Years, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2011 Projected Image, Artstrand Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
In the Zone III, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Juror Christine Temin, Brattleboro, Vermont
Pioneer Women, Jasper Rand Museum, Westfield, Massachusetts
2010 Pleiades, Amherst Biennial, Amherst, Massachusetts
Spring Art Competition Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Pioneer Women, Wonderland, Paper City Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Alumnae Art Show Renbrook School, West Hartford, Connecticut
Sacred=Art?, Nave Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts
2009 After Poe: Works of Mystery and Imagination, University of Maine Farmington Gallery, Farmington, Maine
Unofficial, Art in the Heart of the City Gallery, New Britain, Connecticut
Visions Twelve, Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
The Second Class, The Nave Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts
PRESS AND MEDIA
A Train Ride, a Parade — a Piece of Charlotte Adorns Burlington, The Charlotte News, June 11, 2026 https://www.charlottenewsvt.org/2026/06/11/a-train-ride-a-parade-a-piece-of-charlotteadorns-burlington/
New Burlington Sculptures Mark the End of Main Street Construction, Seven Days, June 10, 2026 https://www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture/artreview/new-burlington-sculptures-mark-the-end-of-main-street-construction/
'Lakebone' Takes Root on Burlington's Main Street, Community News Service, June 4, 2026 https://vtcommunitynews.org/2026/06/04/lakebone-takes-root-on-burlingtons-main-street/
Art in the Coach Barn by Nancy Winship Milliken, Shelburne Farms, February 10, 2026 https://shelburnefarms.org/about/news-and-stories/art-coach-barn-nancy-winship-milliken
For a Coming Art Installation, a Team Seeks the Perfect Tree, Seven Days, November 6, 2024 https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/for-a-coming-art-installation-a-team-seeks-the-perfect-tree-42212314/
Member Spotlight: Nancy Winship Milliken, ecoartspace, January 8, 2024 https://ecoartspace.org/Blog/13298568
Iterant Magazine, featured artist, #12, summer 2023
Fiber Art Now curated print magazine exhibition, Fiber Reimagined, April 2023
Cynthia Close, Art New England, Spotlight Review: Nancy Winship Milliken: Varied and Alive, P. 72, July/August 2022
Large Scale Environmental Sculptures on View This Summer, The Hinesburg Record, June 2022, cover page
WCAX, Shelburne Museum Adds New Exhibits, May 25, 2022
Scooter MacMilllan, Charlotte News, Milliken’s creations help to celebrate Shelburne
Museum’s anniversary, May 19, 2022
Phyl Newbeck, Charlotte News, Nancy Winship Milliken: Bringing Her Love of the
Environment to Her Art. December 2, 2021, p8.
Pam Ellerson, Concord Journal, The Art of Change: Vermont Artist Helping Transform Minute Man Park. Kelly Halkias, Berkshire Eagle, The North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show
UpCountry Magazine North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, July/August 2018, p21
Mass Poetry, Breath and Matter, July 2018
Boston Voyager, Thought Provokers Series, "Check Out Nancy Winship Milliken's Artwork", March 2018
Art New England, Cynthia Close, Spotlight Review: Of Land and Local, January/February, 2018, P66
Rachel Elizabeth Jones, Art Review : Of Land and Local BCA Center and Shelburne Farms, Seven Days, October 25, 2017
Seven Days, Amy Lily, In Montpelier 'SiteTime' Installation Honors Cordwood, December 27, 2017
Sculpture Magazine, Christine Temin "Roberly Bell and Boston Sculptors at Chesterwood", March 2016
Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, "Exhibitions of ceramics, photography, presses, sculpture", December, 01, 2015
Video, Jon Alden, Nancy Winship Milliken at DeDee Shattuck Gallery 2015
The Berkshire Eagle, Charles Bonenti, “Art Al Fresco at The Mount and at Chesterwood”, July 30, 2015
Art New England, Charles Bonenti, “Boston Sculptors in the Berkshires”, July/August 2015
Seven Days, Xian Chiang-Waren, “Eyewitness: Sculptor Nancy Winship Milliken”, October 2014
Seven Days, Xian Chiang-Waren, “BCA's 'Of Land and Local' Exhibit Keeps Growing”, October 2014
VIDEO: WCAX interview and coverage for Of Land and Local, October 2014
People, Preview Massachusetts Magazine, July 2014, P3
Valley Press, Installation Artist brings Students into the Creative Process, 2014, P4
Westminster Bulletin, Creating Landscape Art from Natural Materials, Fall 2013, P65
Sculpture Magazine, Marty Carlock, “Convergence, Boston Sculptors Gallery at the Christian Science Plaza”, March 2014, PP 75,76,
Artscope Magazine, August 2013, Suzanne Volmer, “Convergence” Amy Trinidad, “Installation Highlights Beauty of Wool”, American Sheep Industry April, 2013
The Boston Globe, What's Up at Boston-area Art Galleries, January 9, 2013
Steve Pfarrer, “An Epic Vision: Double Edge Theatre produces 'Odyssey' in heroic fashion”, The Hampshire Gazette, July 13, 1012, Page B1
The Hampshire Gazette, Transformative Process, March 15, 2012, Page C1
Rural Art Blogspot, The Odyssey of Double Edge Theatre, August 22, 2011
The River radio interview Boston Globe, In Ashfield, an ‘Odyssey’ for the senses, August 2, 2011
Chris Rohman, “Wool Sails in the Sunset, Local artists make Double Edge Theatre's Odyssey a Shared Journey”. Valley Advocate Thursday, July 28, 2011
Vermont Art Zine, REVIEW: "In the Zone" at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Hampshire Gazette, Sharing Biennial Moments, Sharing Reflections on 'Art in Expected and Unexpected Places', December 1, 2010
The Hampshire Gazette, In Our Opinion: Amherst's Artistic Outreach, Friday November 12, 2010
The Hampshire Gazette, Painting the Town with Art: Works by Forty Artists Featured in Amherst's First Biennial Celebration, Bonnie Wells, Thursday October 14, 2010
Feltworks Blog, Felt Installations, http://feltworks.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/felt-installations/
The Hampshire Gazette, 'Finding Wonderland': Art Curator Terry Rooney Creates Dreamscape in FormerHolyoke Warehouse, July 22, 2010
Artscope Magazine, The Nave Asks: Sacred =Art? Pg. 26, May/June, 2010
Taylor Polites, “Year in Review: Three To Watch in 2009”, Artscope Magazine, Pg. 50-51, November/December, 2008
EDUCATION
2008 Masters of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Arts and Design
1984 Bachelors of Science, University of Vermont
AWARDED GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2026 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant award
2025 MEAR, Maine Ecology and Arts Residency
2023 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Residency
2021 Vermont Arts Council, Creation Grant
2020 Vermont Arts Council, Artist Development Grant