Show Me the Ozarks August 2022

family moved to Kansas City where she experienced what art could do for her soul. “That move was an awakening for me,” she said. “I suddenly had elementary art classes, field trips to art galleries, museums and children’s concerts. It was a wonderful time for me, and like most kids, I was always most happy to get that new box of crayons at the beginning of every school year.” While living in Kanas City, Connie

went, majoring in art education. She spent 14 years teaching K-12 art classes after graduating. She eventually went back to college and received her master’s degree in counseling, and she worked another 14 years in that capacity before retiring to pursue, yes, even more extra-curricular activities. Connie paints what she considers to be Midcentury Pop Art with acrylic paint on canvas. “Acrylic paint was a reasonably new medium, cheaper

C reating art has been a part of Connie Miller’s whole life. It’s always been about fun and escapism. She never worried about expressing her feelings as much as she enjoyed the childlike wonder of doing the art. Born in a small town in Missouri, Connie lived a normal childhood with her family on a farm. Attending school in a small rural town, it wasn’t until third grade when her Connie Miller By Amy Howe

than oil and easier to use, in the late sixties, when I was studying art in college,” she said. “Since I was constantly broke, cheap sounded good to me, and I learned to love the versatility of the medium.” Connie enjoys

began receiving a lot of support for her love of art. Her family took an interest in her art and encouraged her with books about art and learn to-draw kits and lots of art supplies. Connie hadn’t planned

Connie enjoys painting larger works of art that allow her to immerse herself in the color.

on attending college due to the sheer cost of a four-year education but after learning about the first federally backed loans for college, she had her father co-sign for her loan, and off to Northwest Missouri College in Maryville, Missouri, she

painting larger works of art that allow her to immerse herself in the color. Pop Art contains vivid, bright colors that lend cheerfulness and optimism, which is what Connie also loves. It uses recognizable subjects as vehicles for color.

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