Notable NM Artist Establishes Lecture Series With $50,000 Donation
A longtime artist and philanthropist has gifted a $50,000 contribution to the Western New Mexico University Foundation to establish an artist lecture series, promoting women in the arts. The Edwina and Charles Milner Artist Lecture Series is slated to begin in September of 2015. Mrs. Milner and her husband Charles gifted the donation to the University Foundation to provide public lectures of notable female artists as well as to create workshop activities for university students, public school students and the community. The gift is the latest in a lifetime of creating awareness, by Mrs. Milner, about the importance of women in art. “When I started painting after I graduated in 1953, at that time I felt that I had to sign my initials rather than my given name on my paintings,” explained Mrs. Milner, now 84 years old. “I don’t feel like that is the case anymore.” For the next 60 years, Mrs. Milner worked on her own art as well as advancing the awareness of female...