Caroline Love Miller, Art in Public Places

Saratoga Springs Public Library

49 Henry St, Saratoga Springs, NY

June 2nd-30th, 2026

Artist Statement 

I think of my artwork as a form of poetry. Like a poet, I use my craft to examine lived experience and expose intangible truths. I conjure and define intimate conversation from a visual language of gentle color, altered objects, and delicate layers of marks, pigment, and material.

The resulting visual verse of my artwork carries with it the feelings of dreams. Within that parallel, dreamlike world, I give shape to intimate and imaginative visions and invite reflection on our shared humanity, as well as our relationships with each other and the natural world.

The day after the 2024 national election, I flew to Los Angeles planning to fold origami cranes and give them away as small gestures of peace and kindness.  I folded them across the USA, throughout L.A. during my visit, and back again. At home, I kept folding and sharing cranes with the people that I met. I finished folding 1000 cranes on 12/23/25, and I am still going! The practice has become part of my art work.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri to a mother who was an art teacher, I grew up with art as a primary language. I studied studio art, concentrating in printmaking, at Skidmore College before earning an MFA at UB. My husband and I have lived in Wilton for over 30 years where we raised two children and, now, enjoy their visits. Our current housemate is a little white dog named “Mellow”.