Artwork copyright Constance Parker Miller. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Island Dreams, 1994

Constance Parker Miller
American (born 1941)

Location: Island View Elementary, Anacortes

About the Artwork

Island Dreams is part of textile artist Constance Parker Miller's body of hand-painted and stenciled floor cloths. This piece features the topography of Bainbridge Island, Washington, where the artist lives. With this work, Miller notes that she "wanted to show an island reality prior to the pioneers, roads and modern technology. I wanted to dream of a place I know well, and feel what it was like to walk on the ground, through the trees, to look out across the water, to encounter the animals and plants that once lived there."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Anacortes School District.

About the Artist

Northwest artist Constance Parker Miller primarily creates painted canvas floorcloths that explore color, form, and sensation. She calls this medium "a place, a stage, territory, geography, a story board, a game, a vehicle, and a magic carpet." Before developing her visual art practice, Miller pursued a career in theater. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.