Faculty and Staff

Mildred Howard Exhibition: Selective Memories

10/14/14

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Mildred Howard's exhibition Selective Memories opened at the Fresno Art Museum on September 26 and runs through January 4, 2015.

"Howard's works are a constant interchange between formalism and content as she becomes more committed to the process of retrieval-selecting and working with repurposed materials to capture and peel back the layers that form her ideas and inform the embedded stories that she pushes forward, conscious of the layering of time and how time brings historical perspective to life."

Howard is the recipient of Fresno Art Museum's 2014 Distinguished Woman Artist award. Since 1988 the museum's Council of 100 has presented the award to internationally recognized women artists who have spent thirty or more years in the studio and have created a unique and prestigious body of work.

Mildred was OS3's Visiting Artist. See more of her work at gallerypauleanglim.com.

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