Maggie Mills is a Philadelphia based artist. Her paintings and drawings document the effects that enivironmental degradation and isolation have on our contemporary landscape and its most vulnerable inhabitants.
Mills was awarded the Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellowship, is a Fleisher Wind Challenge winner, was a National Performance Network/Visual Artist Network finalist, and was awarded the Landlab residency through the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education and Knight Foundation. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions including those at the Michener Museum, Delaware Contemporary, Moore College of Art, and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
Mills is Associate Professor of Art at Cedar Crest College. She is President of the Board of Brush with the Law, a community re-entry art program. Mills is a member of Hook&Loop accessible artist collective and an administrator for UNDUE BURDEN, a digital Disability community archive. She is the recipient of numerous community-based project grants and is a 2024 Painted Bride Artist Project grant recipient for UNDUE BURDEN. Her writing on the intersection of for-profit healthcare, our failing safety net, and Disability has been published in Salon, Monthly Review, Common Dreams, and elsewhere.