{"id":91631,"date":"2021-10-05T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-article&p=91631"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T19:56:07","slug":"painting-dorchester","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/articles\/2021\/painting-dorchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Dorchester"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Shantel Miller (\u201921) will use funding from the 2021 Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Award to secure a studio space and grow her body of work exploring the lives of people in Dorchester, Mass.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n
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The Ultimate Gift<\/em>, 2019-2021, oil on canvas, 72\u00d748 in. The painting is from a series exploring the lives of the people Miller met in church and elsewhere around Dorchester. Photo by Julia Featheringill<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Shantel Miller <\/strong>was selected as the $20,000 grand prize winner of the 2021 Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Award<\/a> for emerging artists. When the Toronto native came to CFA to pursue an MFA, she moved in to an all-Christian women\u2019s house in Boston\u2019s Dorchester neighborhood. Soon, she began a series of paintings exploring the lives of the people she met in church and around the neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was my first time living in a Black neighborhood, and I felt like I was home in a sense,\u201d Miller (\u201921) says. \u201cPeople felt familiar. I also experienced a renewed sense of interconnectedness in my life, a new sense of spirituality\u2014just being inspired wherever I went.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller<\/a> is using the funds from the award to secure a studio space and purchase supplies in order to expand her body of work. She plans to visit various Black churches and create portraits and figurative paintings inspired by what she sees. Her project will also include historical research on the congregations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Miller and her work in this\u00a0BU Today<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t