Millicent Young is a studio artist focusing on sculpture, installation, and projects merging sound, poetry, and movement. Her study of visual art, craft, music, and poetry at Dalton and in the museums and streets of the city formed the foundation of her broad art education. Cross cultural childhood experiences, close encounters with poverty and privation, the diversity of her family background, and her immersion in rural lifeways and wilderness were formative influences on Young's social ecological conscience and citizenship.

Millicent Young uses poor materials—horsehair, in particular—to create lyrical abstractions that resemble ancient artifacts or inspired attempts at joining the timeless elements of nature to a contemporary point of view. Millicent Young's work focuses on themes of species extinction, habitat collapse and the atrocities of war. Vulnerability, endurance, loss, awe and paradox are all central to the content, form and context of Millicent Young's work.

The materials Millicent Young use are both substance and symbol. They both contain memories and record new memories through touch, erosion, evaporation, fire, and other processes of construction and reduction. Millicent Young make all pieces by hand with simple tools and methods have developed over years. Some processes are highly repetitive, the form emerging through accretion. Others involve a single irreversible action; from many attempts only one is right. All labor is a powerful ritual, a physical engagement with the unknown and the record of labor itself becomes content.