Kenneth G. Mills Foundation

Kenneth G. Mills Foundation The Kenneth G. Mills Foundation is dedicated to the living legacy of the words and works of Dr. Kenneth G. Mills. Registered charitable organization.

The scope of the Foundation’s activities includes supporting projects specific to the works of Dr. Kenneth G. Mills, as well as advancing the education and careers of young artists, writers, musicians, dancers, and other performers. Each year the Foundation presents workshops at Easter and Thanksgiving and a week-long seminar in the summer. These events feature the words and works of Dr. Mills as well as various guest artists, poets, speakers, and performers. The Foundation was originally established by Dr. Mills in 1980. Upon his passing in 2004 he bequeathed to the Foundation his archival library of recorded lectures and musical performances, as well as the collection of his art and fashions.

A glorious performance of "O Canada"!
06/30/2026

A glorious performance of "O Canada"!

Published in celebration of Canada Day.Experience a remarkable pe...

Ted HallmanThose of us at the Kenneth G. Mills Foundation were saddened to learn of the recent passing of its friend, th...
06/29/2026

Ted Hallman

Those of us at the Kenneth G. Mills Foundation were saddened to learn of the recent passing of its friend, the great American textile artist Theodore (Ted) Hallman, Jr., at his home in Pennsylvania. Ted had been a leader in the fibre arts field since the 1950s, and through decades of innovative work he helped raise the profile of the American Craft Movement. Ted taught a weaving course for four years at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art while still an undergraduate student. That eventually led to teaching stints at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto.

Ted Hallman met Dr. Kenneth G. Mills during the latter’s visit to Berkeley, California, in 1975. Later, in Canada, the two collaborated on a series of weavings. These eighteen woven hangings, titled Sunrise Titles and Twills, were shown at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in September 1978; they then toured throughout Canada, the United States, and Japan. In the exhibition catalogue Ted commented:

“I showed Kenneth G. Mills, my spiritual Teacher, a series of woven hangings inspired by my study with him at his Summer Festival of Light, Sound, and Peace. Mr. Mills most graciously and spontaneously offered over 100 titles, as well as design modifications, for the twelve sunrise hangings I had already woven. Then with great exuberance he delineated how the series could be expanded with six additional pieces, for which he also gave titles and design motifs. I have followed his inspired direction, and urge you to consider these ‘Titles and Twills’ as a series of ‘verbistries’ of sight and sound united in an embellishment of praise!”

Ted Hallman describes his technique in the documentary Sunrise Twills with Titles produced by David Nash for the Kenneth G. Mills Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49sYSYfSURo

Several of the weavings were featured on the album covers of recordings by the Star-Scape Singers. This series of eighteen woven hangings is now part of the permanent collection at the National Museum of Sweden in Stockholm.

Read more here: https://www.kgmfoundation.org/ted-hallman/

Those of us at the Kenneth G. Mills Foundation were saddened to learn of the recent passing of its friend, the great American textile artist Theodore (Ted) Hallman, Jr., at his home in Pennsylvania. Ted had been a leader in the fibre arts field since the 1950s, and through decades of innovative work...

Remembering Dr. Jean Houston, who wrote of Dr. Kenneth G. Mills: "He is a man of marvels, a merlin of music, a master of...
05/20/2026

Remembering Dr. Jean Houston, who wrote of Dr. Kenneth G. Mills: "He is a man of marvels, a merlin of music, a master of the high game of re-inventing the world. He has touched the lives of thousands of people by offering a new way of seeing, hearing and feeling. Through his lectures, his books, his music, his drama and many, many other aspects of his deep knowing and rich art, he has offered to a complex and complicated world a simple path of principle and excellence. His practical genius shows us how to transcend the limits of our ordinary accomplishments."

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