Marianne has explored the power and cultural transcendence of visual images through her travels across the United States, India, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and Australia. A month long trip to Myanmar in 2001 led to her 2003 exhibit, Focus on Burma (Myanmar): Photographer’s Treasures from the Collection of Marianne Howard, featured at The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, Texas.

Marianne studied drawing, painting, printmaking and photography at Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.