Excavating History: The Art of Mildred Howard

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The Department of Art & Art History's Millicent Greenwell Clapp Studio Lecture Series presents Excavating History: The Art of Mildred Howard.

Artist, activist, and educator Mildred Howard is known for her sculptural installations and mixed media assemblages that invoke both collective history and personal narrative.

In 2015, she received the Lee Krasner Award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement. She is also the recipient of the Nancy Graves Award for Visual Artists; a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; a Joan Mitchell Fellowship; an Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship; and most recently, the Douglas G. MacAgy Distinguished Achievement Award from San Francisco Art Institute, among others.

In 2012, Howard was inducted into the Alameda County Hall of Fame and received San Francisco’s prestigious Silver SPUR Award. In 2011, Mayor Tom Bates proclaimed March 29, 2011, as Mildred Howard Day in the City of Berkeley. Howard has taught at institutions throughout the Bay Area, including Stanford University, San Francisco Art Institute, the Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry, and California College of Art.

Her work is included in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the de Young Museum; the Oakland Museum of California; the San Jose Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the San Francisco Arts Commission; and the Washington State Arts Commission, among others. She is represented by Anglim/Tremble Gallery, San Francisco; Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles; and Franklin Parrasch, New York.

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Image: Casanova: Swagger, Style and the Embracement of the Other - I (detail), 2018. Jacquard Tapestry, 72 x 54 in., Edition 6. Magnolia Editions, Oakland.

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