The Maywill Gallery
PRESENTS
THE ART OF MEL MILES
About The Artist
Melvin ("Mel") Miles, was raised in the Bronzeville Community
on the South Side of Chicago, IL. Mel is the ninth born of fourteen children
to Willie and Mary Miles. "The Maywill Gallery" is named in their honor.
Willie and Mary Miles
Mel received his initial art education in the Chicago Public Schools system at Robert S. Abbott Elementary and Wendell Phillips High School. Formal art training was received at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College of the Arts in Chicago. Mel was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Liberal Arts at DePaul University, Chicago; and a Master of Arts from The School of Social Service Administration at The University of Chicago, where he was awarded a Fellowship. The father of two children, Danielle and Kelli, Mel, a Viet Nam Era disabled veteran, career Social Worker and life-long artist works from his studio in Vallejo, CA in the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area.