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Artist’s Gallery Talk: Mildred Howard

Sat, 10/01/2016 - 2:30pm

A resident of Berkeley and raised by politically active parents, Mildred Howard (b.1945) became a member of SNCC and CORE and joined youth protests against segregation in Berkeley schools. She received an Associate of Arts Degree and Certificate in Fashion Arts from the College of Alameda in 1977 and an MFA in 1985 from the Fiberworks Center from the Textile Arts at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California. Howard began her artistic life as a dancer, and in the 1980s turned to installation and mixed media collage. She is the recipient of two Rockefeller Fellowships, a Joan Mitchell Award, and an NEA Fellowship in Sculpture, and in 2011, was honored by Berkeley’s mayor, Tom Bates, who declared March 29, 2011 “Mildred Howard Day.” A year later she received San Francisco’s SPUR Award, recognizing her prominent civic work. She has shown her work throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Howard will be giving a talk on her work in the exhibition Between the World and Me: Contemporary African American Artists Respond to Ta-Nehisi Coates