Bob Miller painted with light, using elaborate systems of prisms and mirrors, or just the holes between his fingers. His devotion and vision won him a grant from the NEA to create what became the Exploratorium's famous "Sun Painting," which shifts in shape and color with the movement of the sun. As one of the first artists invited to the science museum, he was largely responsible for its long-lived Artist In Residence program because, by the time he left almost 20 years later, he had authored many of the museum's most beloved exhibits and influenced generations of thinkers, creators, and makers with elegant philosophies — philosophies best imparted during his legendary "Light Walks" around the museum grounds. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Exploratorium's AIR program, Light Walk: Bob Miller and the Exploratorium offers photographs, letters, papers, and singular objects related to this unique mind. For those of us who never had the pleasure of meandering through sun-dappled trees with Mr. Miller, his letters are a unique window.
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