
Stool
Ash / 2024 26×18×18- About
Rochester, New York transplant Naomi Miller designs furniture and sculptural objects. She is a graduate of the in Furniture Design program at Rochester Institute of Technology. Having taken a non-traditional path to this point Naomi has spent most of her career as a Properties Artisan building furniture at theaters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Most notably the Pittsburgh Public theater and Pittsburg’s City Theater. This path has allowed her to develop a strong sense of how furniture as objects inform the character of a space. As well as how the form of an object effects how we communicate about and with each other. Naomi received her bachelor’s degree in theater from St. Michelle’s college in Burlington Vermont, she was born in Farmington Maine and currently lives in Rochester with Her wife and dog pollywog.
- Region
- Rochester, NY
- Media
- Wood, furniture, sculpture
- Professional Status
- Freelance
Portfolio

We are all running out of something
Maple, Glass, copper wire, water / 2022 40×36×36A kinetic sculpture utilizing glass and water, this piece is an exploration of time and attention.

Assigned At Birth
Maple, Mirror / 2024who are we? how do other peoples perception of us shape how we see ourselves?

Group, Memeber
Maple / 2024 36×21×22Part of a larger piece this is one of a series of chairs arranged in a circle, the chairs progressively burned. This member was located at the 12 o’clock position.

Flare Chair
Ash, Milk paint / 2022 30×28×15A seating object inspired by solar flares, this piece was an entrance into bent forms.

Stool
Ash / 2024 26×18×18
Two Brides Bench
White Oak, Yellow Cedar / 2021 28×67×56A celebration of connection and the process of ageing together.

"What are you looking at ugly?"
Maple, Mirror / 2024 15”×1”×48A part of my graduate thesis exhibition, this piece was inspired by an interaction i had with a woman in a grocery store. In the permanent collection of Rocester Institute of Technology’s Library.
Reliquary for Persephone
Walnut, White Oak, Cherry / 2021 28×30×19A personal reliquary for a beloved pet. It was inspired by river stones and marking cairns.

Dysphoria
Oak, Maple, Mirror / 2024 21”×23”×75”This is a piece where i examine the idea of gender dysphoria as a representational object.

Impacts
Maple / 2023 34×22×22play with hot glass.

Process 4
Maple, Fire / 2023A process shot for the piece “Group”

Flare Chair
Ash, Milk paint / 2023 30×28×15
Lamp
Butternut, glass, / 2022 36×6×1utilizing hot glass, to burn butternut this piece was the beginning of some of my work to use hot shop glass to mark wood.