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Swig Miller

Grass Valley, California, United States

Swig Miller is a self-taught artist, designer and builder based in Grass Valley, California, according to his current website. His practice ranges from monumental sculpture to hand-built spaces, working with wood, steel, stone and earth. Akle’ the Dragon is identified on his site as a Burning Man 2015 project; the organizer described a white concrete dragon almost 50 feet long. Tower of Ascension is credited to Miller and Friends in 2016, with a 40-foot steel tower and fire-breathing dragons. Later archive entries include the seated Open Hearted Meditator, The Phoenix and The Butterfly, The Giver and Tree of Love. Archive dimensions describe those event entries rather than independently verified current structures.

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Representative artist / studio imageImage: arxiv.org ↗Jnaneshwar Das and coauthors, Engineering Mythology (2026), Fig.24(b); photographer not identified. Paper declares CC BY4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Reduced for this directory; framing unchanged. (as credited at source)

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Practice
monumental sculpture, interactive installation, steel sculpture, stone sculpture, woodwork
Based in
Grass Valley, California, United States
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Swig Miller is based in Grass Valley, California, United States. Documented disciplines include monumental sculpture, interactive installation, steel sculpture, stone sculpture, woodwork.

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