Noah became a professional illustratorhis work has been published in magazines and murals around the world.
“He was a lifelong art lover,” said Noah’s father. Jeffrey McMillan“He started it at a very young age.”
It probably didn’t hurt that both parents were visually sensitive, Lucinda an art teacher and Jeffrey a photographer.
On July 31st, Noah died of colon cancer in the home where he was born and raised in Takoma Park, Maryland. he was 33 years old. last week, The U.S. Postal Service has released a stamp featuring one of his illustrations. Scheduled for release next year. Celebrate Noah’s other love, soccer.
“He had two great passions,” said Jeffrey. “One was soccer and the other was art. So he literally found a college that had his summer camp in soccer and then art he had a program.”
That was Washington University in St. Louis. During his junior year and his senior year at his school, Edmund Burke of the School District, Noah attended his soccer camp and then attended a camp for gifted high school artists. . He majored in communication design at the University of Washington.
Hoping to encourage other young artists like Noah, his family created a scholarship in Noah’s honor to support students in the University of Washington’s summer art program. Proceeds from the sale of the prints will go to the Noah Philip Macmillan Portfolio Plus Scholarship. (you can find him work here.)
Noah’s talent appeared early and continued to grow. Through what Jeffrey calls “strange serendipity,” someone in his Smithsonian magazine saw Noah’s college papers just as the publication was planning an article on creativity. The pictures seemed to embody the themes of the story, and the magazine published them.
“I’m a professional photographer,” said Jeffrey. “Jesus, I’ve been trying to get published in Smithsonian magazine for his 50 years. This kid stumbled out of school and has his entire portfolio in there.”
Noah’s illustrations have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Sports Illustrated and Howler Magazine. An avid Arsenal fan, Noah also worked for the LA Galaxy soccer club while living in Los Angeles.
art director Antonio Alcala of Studio A In Alexandria, Virginia, Noah was approached to create the artwork for a women’s soccer stamp, providing a photo of his then 21-year-old daughter. Maya, kick the ball.
The completed stamp shows a woman hitting a ball with her right foot and flapping her ponytail, humming energetically.
Noah knew the stamp was approved, but had to keep quiet about it. It will be released in 2023.
“It’s a real shame that Noah won’t be able to see how warmly the stamps have been received,” said Antonio.
“I love the idea of millions of his works of art flying around the country,” Jeffrey said. “I love that image, to keep him high, so to speak.”
Noah’s survivors include his parents Jeffrey and Lucinda, as well as a twin brother, Seth When Julianand his fiancée, Hitomi Inoue.
“He had a very zen great outlook right up to the end. Very positive, always grateful, always grateful for all of us,” Jeffrey said. Most normal people get very angry and bitter.He was very Zen-like about the whole thing.”
And Noah never stopped doing what he loved and was good at. On the day Noah died, Jeffrey asked if he could borrow his iPad, one of the tools his son used to paint.
“He said, ‘Not today, Dad. I’m on a deadline.'”
In the 1950s, Southwest Washington was largely reborn as a city, but despite its own transformation, one element remains. It’s the Randall School at 65 I St. SW. It opened as Cardozo Elementary in 1906 and was renamed in 1924. Eliza G. Randall, came to the district to help establish schools for formerly enslaved people during and after the Civil War.Randall Middle School Attendees: Singer Marvin Gaye.
The renovated school building LebeL Museum DC, contemporary art gallery.of DC History Center We want to collect and preserve our memories as a school. Anyone connected with the school is invited to come to his community meeting on Sunday from 2:00pm to 3:30pm and on November 16 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. . 900 Wesley Place SW. If you plan to attend, please email Maggie Downing at mdowning@dchistory.org.
Organizers are looking for photos, almanacs and other landalianas. The stories DC History collects are displayed in the courtyard of the old school building.