MILDRED HOWARD
Born

1945 San Francisco, California

Education

1985 MFA, Fiberworks, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA
1977 Associate of Arts Degree and Certificate in Fashion Arts, College of Alameda, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2001 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2000 "Open Sentence," Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
1999 National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1998 Vita Brevis, Boston, MA
1998 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1997 "The Other San Franciscan", San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA
1997 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1997 Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
1997 Afro-American Museum, North Carolina
1996 Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
1996 Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1994 Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1994 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1993 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Ten Little Children Standing in a Line (one got shot, and then there were nine)", University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
1992 "Tap: Investigation of Memory," INTAR, New York, New York
1991 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1991 "Ten Little Children Standing in a Line(one got shot and then there were nine)" San Francisco Art Institute 1991 Adeline Kent Award Exhibition, California
1991 "Memory Garden," Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
1985 "Mildred Howard This Time," Dade County Library, Miami, Florida

Selected Group Exhibitions

2000 "Go Figure," LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
1999 "New Work,"Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 "Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute," Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 "20/20: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition", University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1998 "Portraits," Neilson Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 "Crossing Cultures", LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
1997 "Bay Area African American Artists," Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1997 "Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art & Design," Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1997 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1997 Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington
1996 "Generations", Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1996 "Reincarnation," Oakland Museum of California Sculpture Court at City Center, Oakland, CA
1996 "SFAI 125th Anniversary Show," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1996 Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1995 "By Virtue of Age", Solano Community College, Suisun City, CA
1995 "Ten by Ten, Ten Women Ten Prints", Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1995 "Seeing the Soul", Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1995 "Altars", The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
1995 "Engaging Environments", California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1995 "Ordinary Object- Extraordinary Experience", Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1995 "American Color", Porter Trope Gallery, San Diego, CA
1995 "American Color", Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1994 "20th Anniversary Exhibition", Oakland Museum, CA
1994 "Odon-De", CCAC, Oakland, CA
1994 "inSITE94", Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
1994 "New World Dis-Order", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (traveled/ catalogue)
1994 "Visual Arts Encounter: African Americans in Europe", Gallery Resche, Paris, France
1994 "Sharing the Dream", Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia (traveled/catalogue)
1994 "Living in Balance", Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (traveled)
1994 The UC Berkeley Museum of Art, Science & Culture at Blackhawk, Danville, California
1994 "Transparency and Metaphor", California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, California
1993 "In Transit", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1993 Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1993 "Collectibles", Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1992 "Beyond 1992", Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
1992 "Art in the Anchorage", Creative Time, New York, New York
1992 "Voices", Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1992 LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1991 "Diverse Directions," Trans America Pyramid, San Francisco, California
1991 "Emerging Artists New Expressions," California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, California
1990 "Celebrations, Sights & Sounds of Being," Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
1989 "San Francisco Art Institute Annual," San Francisco, California
1988 "Dia de los Muertos," La Raza Graphics, San Francisco, California
1988 "Inter Arts of Marin," San Anselmo, California
1987 "Chain Reaction," San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, California
1987 "On The Horizon: Emerging California Artists," Fresno Museum, California
1987 "Beyond Power," Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987 "4-Person Exhibit in Celebration of Black History," Koncepts Cultural Gallery, Oakland, California
1987 "Saludo al Pueblo de Nicaragua, " San Francisco, California and Nicaragua
1986 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
1986 "American of African Descent," Collections of Raymond Holbert and Mildred Howard, City College of San Francisco, California
1985 "Spaces: Looking In, Looking Out," African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1985 "Departures," Fiberworks MFA Exhibition,Fiberworks, Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, California
1983 "Fiberworks 10th Anniversary Exhibition," Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, California
1983 "Mildred Howard & David Bradford," Grand Oak Gallery, Oakland, California
1983 "African Genesis," C.E. Smith Anthropology Museum, Hayward, California
1983 "Sweethearts," Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco and Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, California
1982 "Cajas y Otras," Galeria De La Raza, San Francisco, California

Grants and Awards

1997 Vita Brevis, Brookline, MA
1996 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy
1994 National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture
1994 Art Matters, New York, NY
1992-93 Lila A. Wallace/Reader's Digest International Traveling Fellowship
1991 Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, California
1985 The Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, California

Selected Collections

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
Rene and Veronica di Rosa Foundation, Napa, California
Rena Bransten, San Francisco, California