Micki Watanabe Spiller is a reader, paper purist, and lover of books as objects to be held and enjoyed. Books act as containers for ideas and serve as places for escape. She loves how words become love letters and stories to be shared among friends or strangers; how book recommendations bring friends closer; how book clubs build community. She creates works using books as source material.
Her studio practice can be evenly divided into reading, writing, and making. Though her background is in sculpture, she also combines performative aspects to her practice, creating spaces for events where storytelling can take place.
She is a faculty member at Pratt Institute and Parsons School or Design. She is a recipient of the Pollock Krasner, Printed Matter and the NYS Council on the Arts Grants, and her works are in the collection of many private and public collections.