John Miller began working with glass in 1987 in the undergraduate program at Southern Connecticut State University, (SCSU) in New Haven. A decade later he earned an MFA in Sculpture at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. From 1993 to the present, John has been a staff member at Pilchuck Glass School in many different capacities, as a technician, coordinator, gaffer and instructor. In 1998 John was awarded the C.G.C.A. Fellowship at Wheaton Village in Millville N.J., where he continued to build on the concepts of his graduate work. Currently, John Miller is an assistant professor and Head of the glass department at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal. John exhibits internationally and frequently tours the country lecturing and demonstrating with hot glass. Although, he has experimented with many different techniques and materials, his focus is blown sculpture.