Born in 1918 in Huntington, Pennsylvania, John Paul Miller revived the ancient technique of “granulation” — embellishing a gold surface with infinitesimal spheres of gold — and brought it to the highest degree of refinement in his work, which draws much of its inspiration from crustacean and other animal forms. He began working with silver in 1936, inspired by fellow student Fred Miller, with whom he would later work as a studio partner. After graduating in 1940 from the industrial design program at the Cleveland School of Art, Miller spent a tour of duty illustrating tank manuals at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He taught for 37 years at the Cleveland Institute of Art; it was in his early years there that he discovered a text by an archaeologist that spurred him to research the technique at which he would become a master. He has shown at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now the Museum of Arts and Design, New York), and his work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery and at Yale University, as well as in many private collections. Miller won the first Cleveland Arts Prize in 1961 and is their 2011 special honoree. John Paul Miller died March 1, 2013, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received the American Craft Council’s Gold Medal in 1994.