Dorie Millerson

Dorie Millerson is an artist working in a variety of constructed textile techniques ranging from weaving to lace making. Building on her research into the metaphorical and physical nature of mending in textiles, her master's thesis examined the propensity of lace and shadow to investigate time, memory and loss. She exhibits her award-winning artwork internationally. Articles about her work have appeared in the periodicals Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal, Sculpture, and the books La Dentelle dans l’art contemporain (2021) and Artistry in Fiber, Vol. 2: Sculpture (2017).

Her writing about craft practice has been published in Studio: Craft and Design in Canada, Surfacing Journal, Metal Arts Guild (MAGazine) and the books Digital Meets Handmade: Jewelry in the 21st Century (2021), and Crafting New Traditions: Canadian Innovators and Influences (2008). In 2017, she developed the research project, "Craft Pedagogy and the Digital Challenge" with Co-Investigator Dr. Lynne Heller which tackled issues of how we learn, teach, and practice digital craft in higher education and that formed the basis for a SSHRC-funded project, "Thinking through craft and the digital turn: studio practice, technology, and pedagogy within Canadian art and design universities" (2019-2022) in collaboration with colleagues from across Canada.

She has an extensive background in arts event and education programming and coordination and in 2008 received a Community Outreach Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries for her work with the Textile Museum of Canada. Millerson holds an MFA in textiles from NSCAD University (2003) and is an honours graduate in fibre from the Ontario College of Art & Design (2000). Since 2005, she has taught at OCAD University in the Material Art & Design program of the Faculty of Design. She supervises MA, MDes and MFA students who work across craft in disciplines such as textiles, ceramics, furniture and fashion as well as craft history and curation in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Her areas of expertise are textiles, craft history and theory, and drawing.