Rick Mills

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'Spirit of Loyalty', cast glass and bronze sculpture by Rick Mills, 1995, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Rick Mills (born 1957) is an American glass artist who was born and raised in Marion, Ohio. He received his bachelor of fine art degree in sculpture from Ohio State University, where the art department reopened its glass program in 1980, during Mills last semester. He moved to Hawaii in 1981 and earned a master of fine art degree, also in sculpture, from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he is currently chairman of the glass art program.

Mills has a large glass frieze in the Hawaii Convention Center that was commissioned by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. The Glasmuseum (Ebeltoft, Denmark), the Royal College of Art (London) and the Hawaii State Art Museum are among the public collections holding work by Rick Mills.

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• Clarke, Joan and Diane Dods, Artists/Hawaii, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1996, 38-43.