John Stirling Millen |
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Training
BA Peabody Conservatory of Music 1965 Self-taught cabinet maker - boat builder -woodworker - drum maker
Exhibits
American Craft Council Craft Shows Three Rivers Arts Festival -Invited Artist, 1996, 1997 Sugarloaf Mountain Works National Crafts Ltd. West Virginia Mountain Heritage Festival Brandywine Arts Festival Philadelphia Folk Festival Glen Echo Folk Festival Harrisburg Artsfest (May 24, 25, 26, 2003) Columbus Arts Festival (Jun, 5, 6, 7, 8, 2003) Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts - invited Artist 1997 (Jul 10, 11, 12, 13, 2003) State Street Area Art Show, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Jul, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2003) Long's Park Art & Craft Festival (Aug. 29, 30, 31, Sept. 1, 2003)
Mickey Hart - Former drummer with The Grateful Dead Glen Velez - Played for many years with Paul Winter and The Paul Winter Consort. He now has his own group and is the undisputed top frame drum player in the US today. Layne Redmond - Creator and Director of The Mob of Angels who perform women's ritual drumming music. Ysaye Barnwell - Sings with the nationally known a capella vocal group "Sweet Honey in the Rock". The songs she has written for the group are among their most popular hits. Jah Levy - Jah Levy and The Higher Reasoning Peter Barnheart - Burning Bus
Invitations to Baltimore City Visions Art Exhibit -1992 The Art and Sculpture Show at the Resurgam Gallery -1993 Two ThunderHeart drums purchased by the Peabody Conservatory of Music for its instrument collection -1994 Three ThunderHeart drums, including ThunderHeart ( one of the largest natural skin drums in the world) were featured in a concert of percussion music by the Peabody Percission Ensemble -1995. ThunderHeart appeared in a concert with the Marine Band at Sousa Hall -1996. The Marine Band purchased a ThunderHeart djembe -1996. Community Fellowship Award from The Open Society Institute 1999- for bringing a drumming program to an inner city school in Baltimore and building for the school a 36" ceremonial drum. Photo of Tars and Bodhran on the October 2001 cover of The Craft Report Invited speaker at the Maryland MENSA Regional Conference 4/03 Presenter at the annual fellows conference of the Open Society Institute 11/03
Baltimore Sunpaper -1993 TV2 -1993 Johns Hopkins Magazine -1994 Peabody Notes -1995 The Marc Steiner show on WJHU -Sept. 1996 CITYPAPER - January 22, 2003 issue |
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