Mille’s story starts in Puebla, Mexico, where she was born in 1985. From the beginning, she would depend on her grit and tenacity to help her navigate the many challenges she would face as a child and young adult. Before the age of sixteen, her family had moved over twelve times. Art and individual expression helped her to escape the chaos and instability of life at home.

At an early age, she learned to be resourceful and create with whatever materials she could get her hands on. She would look at wire, plaster and paint and think how these components could be combined. For a year, she lived in Finland, the country where her mother was born and raised. Here she continued to learn skills such as knitting, crocheting, metal working and woodworking. Each of these techniques she continues to explore and incorporate into her current creations. Her interest in woodworking has yielded the ability to build her own stretcher frames and create custom frames to fit her pieces. Her understanding of textiles and how they can be manipulated, has provided the capacity to stretch canvases to fit spaces of significant size and stature. She is able to use both traditional and nontraditional textiles as the foundation for her paintings. The metal working and crocheting techniques she learned as a child have incorporated themselves into the sculptural pieces she creates today.  

Mille graduated from Texas State University and moved to Austin, Texas. Here she met her husband, a pilot in the military. Together, with their two children, they moved wherever the Navy sent them. They have had the opportunity to live in places such as Hawaii, Washington D.C., Virginia and Florida. These locations have led way to numerous adventures to include trips to the United Kingdom and Japan. Many of Mille’s pieces have been influenced by the colors and subjects she has observed throughout the Japanese gardens and countrysides. It is the organic that most attracts her and has influenced the colors, shapes and textures she selects for her pieces.