Christopher Nevill Miles is a Los Angeles-based creative whose practice encompasses studio art, design, research, scholarship, curation, teaching, and art production facilitation. Driven by making, inquiry, discourse, problem-solving, and service, he maintains a project-focused approach. Since 1998, he has been a faculty member at California State University Long Beach, where he was awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in 2019 and the Outstanding Professor Award in 2024. He currently serves as Program Head for Ceramic Arts Studies and Director of the Center for Contemporary Ceramics.

The Visiting Artist and Scholar Program aims to reinforce the mission of the Art and Art History Department by inviting leading artists and scholars to present an array of artistic practices, historical discourse and divergent perspectives that can increase access to creativity and forge new territories between the arts and broader cultural movements.