Joe Miller “Food and Shelter”

Joe Miller is a designer, design educator, arts administrator, artist, poet, and spoken word performer. He is principal of Joe Miller’s Company, Senior Lecturer at SJSU, and is a locally recognized visual artist. Joe combines found, acquired, and artist-made objects with text and image, commenting on the place of the individual in our manufactured environment. Typographic voice is given to a range of objects, resulting in a conversation of forms that brushes aside distinctions between art, design, and poetry. Joe’s work in has been published in dozens of books and respected publications, has received more than 130 regional to international awards, and has been included in dozens of exhibitions nationwide. In addition to many private collections, Joe’s work is in the permanent collections of the Triton Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Denver Museum of Art, and is in the AIGA National Design Archives.