Melody Miller Fabric

Melody Miller gravitated toward academics and the arts early on (“I was always the kid the who drew,” she remembers), but really came to identify as an artist after attending the Governor’s School for the Arts summer program during high school. “It was life changing to go from feeling like this awkward kid in school to being in this community of artists and realizing, ‘Oh, this is what I am!’” Though admittedly not one for self-helpy mantras, there is one that fits her persistent nature: “Leap and the net will appear,” by John Burroughs, which she discovered in “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. “I think of that all the time when I'm intimidated by my own ideas,” Melody says. “The ‘leap’ is allowing yourself to say ‘I’m going to do this.’