Mildred Howard "The Artist's Vision"

Mildred received her MFA degree from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, CA. She is know for her large scale installations invoking both collective history and personal narrative, such as Tap: Investigation of Memory, Blackbird in a Red Sky, AKA Fall of the Blood House and the 1991 Adaline Kent Award, for which she created her moving tribute to the children of the Soweto massacre, Ten Little Children Standing in a line (one got shot, and then there were nine).

Mildred Howard , installation and mixed-media artist, teacher and educator has received numerous awards including, the 2004/2005 Joan Mitchell Award, 2003 California Arts Council Artists Fellowship, 2001/2002 Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship, an NEA Grant in sculpture, a Rockefeller Artists Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship to Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Fleischhacker Fellowship. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Exhibitions 2003/2004 include Neuburger Biennale in Public Art, Purchase, New York, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Walcot Chapel, Bath, England, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA and Gallery Paule Anglim San Francisco. Her work is included in collections of the DeYounge Museum, Oakland Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, Wadsworth Athenaeum Hartford, Connecticut; International Museum of Glass and Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA; Contemporary Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Washington State Art Commission; and the San Francisco Arts Commission.