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Margo Miller
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Margo Miller

Margo Miller is a Black Appalachian maker, cultural worker, and community artist from East Tennessee. Raised in Knoxville, she comes from a region where creativity, care, and everyday resourcefulness are part of daily life. She spent more than thirteen years as executive director of the Appalachian Community Fund, supporting grassroots organizing across Central Appalachia. Her creative practice is rooted in quilting, clay, fiber, storytelling, and the beauty of everyday life. A longtime member of Alternate ROOTS, founding assembly member of the Waymakers Collective, and member of the Ceramic Soul Collective, Margo makes space for art, joy, community, and handmade traditions.

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Members of Ceramic Soul at The Emporium for the "Piece of Us" exhibition opening
Claiming and Continuing
By Margo Miller
Appalachia is often misunderstood. People tend to see the stereotypes before they see the people. For me, Appalachia is front porches and sweet tea, but it is also grit, kinship, hard truths, and deep care. It is a place where people have never lacked the will or the skill to organize, make do, speak up, and look after one another.

It is a region full of creativity, resilience, humor, contradiction, and beauty.
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