Dan Miller received an MFA degree in painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958 and graduated from PAFA the following year. Since returning to PAFA as a faculty member in 1964, he has served as instructor in art history, painting and printmaking.

As an administrator, he has fulfilled the duties of Dean of Faculty, Acting Dean of the School, Chairman of the Painting Department, and since 1998, Chair of the MFA Program. He has had 71 one-person exhibitions involving printmaking and sculpture. His work is in numerous private and public collections.

Miller has spent his summers in Corea, Maine for nearly 60 years. It is there, while away from his teaching and administrative duties that he makes his woodcuts and his wood sculptures.