Mildred Orama’s Art Featured at Center for Healing & Hope
A new collaborative effort will see the lobby at Center for Healing & Hope take on a new look and feel every few months through the installation of curated exhibits in partnership with local artists.
There are many studies that show the health benefits of viewing original art. From stress reduction, to increased focus and much more, viewing original art has a way of healing, promoting imagination, and inspiring. Moving into our second artist partnership this year, we’re excited to continue offering exhibits as an added amenity for our patients and guests while highlighting local artists and their stories.
With 18 pieces on display, the Mildred Orama exhibit is open to the public and available to view during business hours Monday-Friday from 8:30-12:00 and 1:00-4:30. All original artwork is available for purchase. If you are interested in purchasing, we will put you in touch with Mildred directly. We will be announcing a reception date soon where you can come and hear from the artist and have the opportunity to purchase original works and prints. Stay tuned!
Mildred Orama’s words about the exhibit at Center for Healing & Hope
These paintings came together slowly, over time—shaped by experience, emotion, and memory. They weren’t made all at once. They grew little by little, like something finding its way through uncertain seasons, reaching for light even when it feels far away.
Each piece follows that quiet instinct to keep going. To take a step, even when it feels impossible. To move forward without having all the answers. To stay, even after being hurt, judged, or pushed aside.
And still, they grow.
There’s no perfection here—only process. A reminder that something fragile can also be strong, and something wounded can still open, can still reach for light., like flowers!
These works live in that in-between space—where it hurts, where it heals, where
something inside refuses to disappear.
Like flowers, like women, they bend, they carry marks, they change… and they keep growing. Each canvas holds color and life. I feel my Puerto Rican roots in them—a reflection of the strength and resilience of my beautiful Isla del Encanto, Puerto Rico.
I believe there is a deep strength in every woman. Even within complexity, she rises again and again. There is something within—a quiet knowing, a conscience—that calls her to continue, to transform, and to leave something meaningful behind.
Because in the end, this is what remains:
What story do we choose to pass on?
What kind of legacy will live through us, and beyond us?
Estas pinturas cobraron forma lentamente, con el paso del tiempo, moldeadas por la experiencia, la emoción y la memoria. No fueron creadas de una sola vez; crecieron poco a poco, como algo que se abre camino a través de estaciones inciertas, buscando la luz incluso cuando esta parece lejana.
Cada pieza sigue ese instinto silencioso de seguir adelante. De dar un paso, aun cuando parezca imposible. De avanzar sin tener todas las respuestas. De permanecer, incluso después de haber sido herida, juzgada o apartada.
Y, aun así, siguen creciendo.
Aquí no hay perfección; solo proceso. Un recordatorio de que algo frágil también puede ser fuerte, y de que algo herido aún puede abrirse, aún puede buscar la luz ;como flores!
Estas obras habitan en ese espacio intermedio: allí donde duele, donde sana, donde algo en el interior se niega a desaparecer.
Como las flores, como las mujeres, se doblan, llevan consigo sus marcas, cambian… y siguen creciendo. Cada lienzo encierra color y vida. En ellas siento mis raíces
puertorriqueñas: un reflejo de la fortaleza y la resiliencia de mi hermosa Isla del
Encanto, Puerto Rico.
Creo que existe una fortaleza profunda en cada mujer. Incluso en medio de la
complejidad, ella se levanta una y otra vez. Hay algo en su interior —un saber
silencioso, una conciencia— que la llama a continuar, a transformarse y a dejar tras de sí algo significativo.
Porque al final, esto es lo que queda:
¿Qué historia elegimos transmitir?
¿Qué legado vivirá a través de nosotras, y más allá de nosotras?
Artist Bio:
Mildred Orama is an artist born and raised in Puerto Rico and currently living in Goshen, Indiana. Her medium is painting with acrylic on canvas. She is a passionate self-taught artist. She has studied with different art schools via online classes. Art for her is a language, an expression of experiences without words. She understands that art is vital and can start a dialogue, art is a way of healing. She likes to work with mixed media, mainly using acrylics, brush strokes, charcoal, oil sticks, and other techniques. She is inspired by lived experiences and how those experiences make her feel. She uses palette knives, brushes, her hands, and finds scraps as tools to create layers in her work. Orama loves watching how mistakes become a wonderful part of the final work. In her creative process she tries to capture and express the emotional reflections that trigger inspiration. Her paintings are composed mostly of abstract silhouettes of women in natural landscapes in two-dimensional visual language. She enjoys creating what her spirit guides her to explore. Shape, line, tone, and texture are used in various ways in her paintings to produce volume, movement, and light. People delight her when they feel the intended emotion she imbues in her work, and they in turn are delighted by the brightness, depth, and harmony of her use of color. Many express they can’t believe she captures such vibrancy and richness using acrylic paint. She has shown works in Grand Rapids, Michigan in two different galleries, The Local in Goshen, Indiana, and In Art on Main art gallery in Elkhart, Indiana. She participated in Arts on the Millrace and Gauche Art Tour in Goshen, Indiana for several years. She has been featured in The Good of Goshen and Panoply Michiana. Look her up on Instagram and Facebook to see her artwork and find the opportunity to purchase artworks and connect.
https://www.facebook.com/Artbym@ArtsbyM
https://www.instagram.com/mildred.orama?igsh=enNjN2lwdG5yNXlp&utm_source=qr