Bebe Miller, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor and artistic director, Bebe Miller Company, was awarded a $50,000 fellowship yesterday from United States Artists, a national grant-making and advocacy organization.

Each year, United States Artists honors 50 of America’s finest artists with individual fellowships of $50,000 – unrestricted funds awarded across eight disciplines.

Miller received her MA in dance from Ohio State in 1975. Her interest in finding a physical language for the human condition is a connecting thread throughout her work. In 1985, she formed the Bebe Miller Company. Her work, Landing/Place (2005), a multi-media work made in collaboration with ACCAD, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Department of Dance, received a NY Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) in 2006. She teaches modern technique, improvisation, repertory, creative practice and choreography, and a graduate seminar in dance.

A four-time “Bessies” winner, Miller has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Miller has created works for Boston Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and Philadanco.

Miller currently serves as a board member for Dance USA, Dance Theater Workshop and Danspace Project, and is a member of the International Artists Advisory Board of the Wexner Center for the Arts.

The Bebe Miller Company is working on a project to premiere next year.