Each year a fifth year student at the Cleveland Institute of Art is selected by the school’s scholarship committee for the John Paul Miller Scholarship in the Visual Arts. The scholarship is awarded to an outstanding student who exhibits a diverse portfolio representing multiple disciplines.

Taylor Maida

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Taylor Maida is a fifth year sculpture major at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her work focuses on present day conceptions of convenience and leisure and the practical verses the impractical. The forms and materials in her work reference processes and objects associated with the kitchen. Through these associations her work explores the point when necessity becomes convenience, convenience is leisure and leisure is practical or impractical. The discussion of the transformation of materials [energy] relates to her interest in self-sufficiency and the way in which American society depends on efficiency and indirect relationships. And Taylor’s favorite vegetable is an artichoke and she looks forward to seeing okra growing for the first time this summer.