b. 1945, San Francisco, CA
Lives and works in Oakland, CA
Education
1985 MFA, Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA
1977 Associates of Arts Degree & Certificate in Fashion Art, College of Alameda, Alameda, CA
Solo Exhibits
2026 Oakland Museum of California
2024 Moving Stills, AnglimTrimble, San Francisco, CA
Conversing With the Muse, Pt2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA
2022 Mildred Howard, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Mildred Howard, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2021 Mildred Howard: a Sonata in Four Parts, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
In the Line of Fire, Shirley Fitterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY New York, NY
2020 The House That Will Not Pass for Any Color Than Its Own, Battery Park City, NYC, NY (until 2022)
Mildred Howard: A Survey, 1978 - 2020, Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Mildred Howard, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
2018 Mildred Howard, Roll Up Project, Oakland, CA
2016 Mildred Howard: Parenthetically Speaking, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Mildred Howard: Spirit and Matter, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2014 Mildred Howard: Collective Memory, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
2011-12 Parenthetically Speaking: It’s Only a Figure of Speech, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2010 New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim San Francisco, CA Moeller Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
2008 Mildred Howard: That Was Then and Here Was Now, Nevada Museum of Art, NV, Reno Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
To Honor Teaching, Solano Community College, Fairfield, CA
2007 New Works 2007, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Drawings: Visions, Surfaces, and Beyond, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2006 In the Line of Fire/Crossings, University of Texas, San Marcos, TX
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
2004 Crossings, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Walcot Chapel, Bath, England
Private Eye, Public Me, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2003 Switchin’ in the Kitchen, Margaret Porter Troupe Literary & Visual Arts Salon, New York, NY
Three Shades of Blue, San Francisco, CA Walcot Chapel, Bath, England
2002 Do We Have the Right to Remain Silent, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Mildred Howard, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
2001 Mildred Howard, Installations, Constructions, Assemblages, Gallery Paul Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2000 Open Sentence: Installation and Constructions, Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 In the Line of Fire, Installation, Gallery II, University of Bradford, Bradford, England
In the Line of Fire, Installation, City Gallery, Leicester, England
Mildred Howard, Constructions, Piedmont Community College, Charlotte,
1998 In the Line of Fire, Installation, African American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC
Mildred Howard, Installations, Constructions, Assemblages, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
S. S. (Slave Stealer), Installation, ICA's Vita Brevis, Old South Meeting House, Boston, MA
1997 Crossings, Installation, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Mildred Howard, Constructions, Assemblages, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Mildred Howard, Constructions, Assemblages, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Other San Franciscan, San Francisco, CA
1996 In the Line of Fire, Installation, Constructions, Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Mildred Howard, Installation and Constructions, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Mildred Howard, Installation and Constructions, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
The Last Train from Caney Creek to 16th and Wood, Installation, Ohlone College, Fremont, CA
1994 The Last Train from Caney Creek to 16th and Wood, Installation, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Mildred Howard, Constructions. Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1993 Mildred Howard, Installation, Assemblages, Constructions, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Tap: Investigation of Memory, Installation, Hammonds House Galleries, Atlanta, GA
1992 Tap: Investigation of Memory, Installation, INTAR New York, NY
Ten Little Children Standing in a Line (One Got Shot and Then were Nine), University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
1991 Ten Little Children Standing in a Line (One Got Shot and Then were Nine), Adaline Kent Award Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1990 Memory Garden: Phase II, Installation, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 1987
Transparent Views, Paintings, Constructions, California State University, Hayward, CA
1985 Mildred Howard, Bomarzo Floral Design, San Francisco, CA
Mildred Howard: This Time, Collage, Paintings, Miami Dade County Library, Miami, FL
1984 Gospel and the Storefront Church, Installation, Old Post Office, Mill Valley, CA
1985 Mildred Howard This Time, Dade County Library Art and Music Department, Miami, FL
1987 Transparent Views: Mildred Howard, University Union Gallery, California State University, Hayward, CA
Group Exhibitions
2021 Poetic Justice: Mildred Howard, Judy Baca, Jaune Quicktoseesmith. Santa Fe Museum of Art The World Stage. Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2020 25 at 25: A Community of Artists. Visual and Public Art Gallery, California State University Monterey Bay, College of Arts and Humanities, Monterey Bay, CA
2019 Hot Love – Cold Facts, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging, University of California Art Center & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Nine Moments For Now, The Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2018 Collective Vision, Bivins Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Themes of Social Justice in Contemporary Printmaking and Photography from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette Unviersity, Salem, OR
The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Visual Anthology: Artwork and the Book, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Face Forward: Self-Image & Self-Worth, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Witness: Race and Identity in Contemporary American Printmaking, Selections from the Collection of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Jordan D. Schnitzer Foundation, Portland, OR
2017 Here Now: Where We Stand, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, USA, Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Dimensions of Black, The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
An Idea of a Boundary, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Beyond Mammy, Jezebel, & Sapphire: Reclaiming Images of Black Women, Alexandria Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Between the World and Me: Contemporary African American Artists Respond to Ta- Nehisi Coates, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2015 Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Portraits and Other Likenesses: from SFMOMA, Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, CA
2013 Breaking Ground: Gifts from Katie and Drew Gibson, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Art Laguna Prize, 7th Edition, Tese San Cristoforo Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2012 Creating a Living Legacy, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY
2010 ArchiTECHtonica, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Mildred Howard/Leo Bersamina, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California
2009 A Kind Of Echo, East Bay Waldorf School, El Sobrante, CA
Manifest Destiny, Moeller Fine Art GmbH, Berlin, Germany
New Works, Old Story: 80 Artists at the Passover Table, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Ouverture, Moeller Fine Art GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Some Assembly Required…Race, Gender, and Globalization, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2008 Freedom of Expression, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA Zora Neal Hurston Museum,
Eatonville, FL
2007 Contemporary Glass, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Drawings: Visions, Surfaces and Beyond, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2006 Camera Works, San Francisco, CA
International Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Scents of Purpose: Artists Interpret the Spice Box, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Gateway Gallery, New Works Exhibition, Napa, CA
2005 Cedar Hurst Center for Contemporary Art, Mt. Vernon, Il di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA
High 5, San Francisco State University, San Francisco Art Commission in Celebration of the opening of the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Museum of the African Diaspora, Inaugural Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2004 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
2003 Dwellings, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA
Food Matters, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY
Global Elegies: Art & Ofrendas for the Dead, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Neuberger Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Purchase, NY
Not so Still Life, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sweet Tooth, Copia, American Center for Wine Food and the Arts, Napa, CA
2002 I-5 Resurfacing: Four Decades of California Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Mildred Howard, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Parallels and Intersections, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Return Engagement, Copia, American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, CA
2001 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Z-Space, San Francisco, CA
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
When the Spirit Moves, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2000 Made in California 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Nielsen Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition Part II, New Works, Boston, MA
1999 Beyond the Veil: African American Art & Artists at Centuries End, Cornell Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Dancin': Africanization of American Movement, National Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH
Fragments of the World from Collage to Readymade, University of California Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1997 A Visual Heritage: 1945 to 1980, Bay Area African-American Artists, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Eureka Fellowship Awards Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Hand, Mind and Spirit, Contemporary African American Women Artists, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Hello Again, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Trashformations, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
1996 30+ East Bay Painters and Artists, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Group Show, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Mirror My Presence, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1995 Altars, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
A Late 20th Century Perspective/American Color, Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
By Virtue of Age, Solano Community College, Suisun City, CA
Ordinary Object- Extraordinary Experience, Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Seeing the Soul, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Ten by Ten, Ten Women Ten Prints, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1994 A Visual Arts Encounter: African Americans and Europe, Galerie Resche, Paris, France
Breaking Traditions, Contemporary Artist Who Use Glass, University of California, Blackhawk, CA
Contemporary Collage/Assemblage, University of Maine, Augusta, ME
Engaging Environments, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
InSite 94, San Diego, CA
New World DisOrder, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Opening Exhibition, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Sharing the Dream, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA
Shrines, Symbols & Cherished Objects, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Transparency and Metaphor, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
1993 Collectible, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Crossing the Line: Abstraction/Figuration, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Fragile Power: Exploration of Memory, Newton Museum of Art, Newton, MA Insight/Incite/Insite: Exhibition of Nine Women Artists, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
In Transit, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1992 Art in the Anchorage, Creative Time New York, NY
In Celebration of Dia de los Muertos, Galeria Arte, Oaxaca, Mexico
1991 Diverse Directions, Memory Garden, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA
Residue Immortalized, Security Pacific Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Celebrations, Sights and Sounds of Being, Fisher Art Gallery, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Emerging Artists New Expressions, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Memory Garden Phase I., Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1989 Paint Forum, Helen Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
San Francisco Art Institute Annual, San Francisco, CA
1988 Artists Valentines, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Dia de los Muertos, La Raza Graphics, San Francisco, CA
1987 Artists' Choice, Rolando Castellon Contemporary Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Artists’ Valentines, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Beyond Power - A Celebration, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
On the Horizon: Emerging In California, Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, CA
Chain Reaction, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In Celebration of Black History Month, Koncepts Cultural Gallery, Oakland, CA
1986 Americans of African Descent: A Survey, City Art Gallery, San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA
Art & Garbage, Inter-Arts of Marin, Marin Recycling Center, San Rafael, CA
Artists’ Valentines, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Saludo al Pueblo de Nicaragua, Escuela de Artes Plasticas, Managua, Nicaragua
1985 Artists’ Valentines, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Departures, Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
Spaces: Looking In/Looking Out, The Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Artists’ Valentines, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Flying Colors, The Howden Building, Oakland, CA
Small Project Award Grantees: Artists' Proposals, Falkirk Community Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
The Gospel and the Storefront Church, performance/installation, Mill Valley Community Center (Old Post Office), Mill Valley, CA
1983 African Genesis, C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology, California State University, Hayward, Hayward, CA
Fiberworks 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
Mildred Howard & David Bradford, Grand Oak Gallery, Oakland, CA
Sweethearts, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Sweethearts, Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 Cajas y Otras Cosas, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
Flash! Copy Art, Chevron Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 An Art Show, California State University Gallery, California State University, Hayward, CA
Bay Area Artists, Grand Oak Gallery, Oakland, CA
Copy Art, Union Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Staying Visible, Helen Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1980 Common Threads, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Copy Art Exhibition, La Mamelle Inc., San Francisco, CA
Fiberworks at Marin Civic Center, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
1979 Mixed Media Juried Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Capricorn Asunder Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Personal Shrine, The Reverend Doctor Magnolia Brown, Reader, Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
San Francisco Art Festival, San Francisco, CA
Toy Show, Nanny Goat Hill Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1978 Fibers: Mixed Media, '78, Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia
Heartfelt Hearts, Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
Local Color, Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
1965 Street Festival, Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA
Commissions
2021 Southeast Community Center, SF Art Commission, City & County of San Francisco
Berkeley Art Commission, City of Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
San Leandro Public Library, San Leandro Art Commission, San Leandro, CA
2018 Project Lead Artist, Stevenson Street Project, 706 Mission Street, LLC San Francisco, CA (until 2023)
2018 Project Lead Artist, Stevenson Street Project, 706 Mission Street, LLC San Francisco, CA
Project Lead Artist with Johanna Poethig, AC Transit BART, Art Enhancement, Oakland, CA
2010 Project Artist in conjunction with DCE Planning & The City of Oakland, Artists working
Signage & Lighting, Port of Oakland, Mildred Howard/Walter Hood & Hood Design
2014 Project Lead Artist with Johanna Poethig, AC Transit BART, Art Enhancement, Oakland, CA (until 2020)
2008 125 Mason Street Family Housing Project in conjunction with the Glide Foundation, GEDC and Millennium Partners, San Francisco, CA
The Next Key Project, Homeward Bound, Novato CA
2004/05 Project Yes!, Alameda County Art Commission, In conjunction with Alameda Co. Social
Services and Castlemont High School, Oakland, CA. A collaboration with Johanna Poethig
2002/03 Black Bird in a Red Sky, Installation, Red glass house and 700 resin apples floating in a reflecting pool, Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art,
Tacoma WA
Fillmore Street Bridge Project, Twenty glass panels with text, San Francisco Art
Commission in Conjunction with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, San Francisco, CA
2000/01 Locks & Keys, Bollards, benches, lighting, and trellises, Design Task #1, Mildred Howard
Yerba Buena Garden Central Block 1 artist and architect consortium (Mildred Howard,
James Turrell, Walter Hood & Hood Design, Cheryl Barton & Associates) for Millennium Partners, Partners/WGB Ventures, Inc. & the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency San
Francisco, CA
2000 Salty Peanuts, San Francisco International Airport Expansion & the San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA
1998 Mettre Lamain, Glass railings. Elihu Harris State Building, Oakland, CA
Four Mixed-Media Works, Window constructions, California State Building, San Francisco, CA
1997 Stories from the Fillmore, Collages. Art in Transit, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA
1991 Memory Garden, Phase II, Installation. Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1990 Ten Mixed-Media Works, Window constructions. Art in Public Places, Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA
Teaching / Residency
2018 Artist in Residence, Shark’s Ink, Lyons, CO
2010 Artist in Residency Pilchuk Glass School, Stanwood, WA Visiting Lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute
2008 Visiting Lecturer, California College of the Arts
2006 Artist in Residence, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA Artist/Consultant, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Curator, One Hundred Families, Center for Public Life, California College of Arts and Crafts with the Oakland Museum of California
2004-05 Artists in Resident, Far West Middle/High School, Oakland, CA
2004 Visiting Artist/Cultural Specialist, State Department, Alexandria, Cairo and Aswan Egypt
Visiting Artist, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI
2003 Artist/Consultant, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist, Brown University, Providence, RI
Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Distinguished O’Brien Visiting Professor, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2002 Visiting Artist/Cultural Specialist, State Department, Alexandria, Cairo and Aswan, Egypt
Visiting Artist, Cartographies of Race: Mapping Race and Space in California, Stanford, CA
Irvine Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford, CA
1999-00 Executive Director, The Edible Schoolyard, Berkeley, CA
Visiting Artist, Oxbow, Napa, California
1989-99 Artists Coordinator/Teacher Institute for Inquiry, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
1998 Adjunct Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Professor of Art, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1994 Consulting Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, Stanford University, Standford, CA
1991 Consulting Professor of Sculpture, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Visiting Professor, Espacio Cience Viva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1987-89 Program Administrator, Artists in Communities Program, California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA
1981-87 Program Coordinator, Artists in Residence Program, East Oakland Youth Development Center, Oakland, CA
1981-84 Artists in Residence Coordinator, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
1979-81 Instructor, The Institute for Clinical Developmental Psychology, Berkeley, CA
Curatorial
2019 5 and 2 Others, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2008 Shelters: Part 1 & 2, Luggage Store Annex, San Francisco, CA
2007 100 Families, Center for Public Life, CCA at the Oakland Museum of California
1994 Maxine Lewis, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Co-curator, Barbara Galluci & John Abduljaami, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
1983 Children’s Art, Clorox Company, Oakland, CA
1982 Jazz and the Visual Arts, A Symposium with Films, Panel Discussion and Photo Exhibit, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
1979 Children’s Art Festival, Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
1978 Children’s Art, Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
Heartfelt Hearts, Co-curated with Donna Larsen, Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
Local Color, Fiberworks, Center for the Textile Arts, Berkeley, CA
Podcast & Video Interviews
2020 Artist Talk: Mildred Howard with Claudia Schmuckli, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Mildred Howard’s Houses Hold Memories, San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
BPCA Presents: Virtual Juneteenth, Part 1 – History & Storytelling, Battery Park City Authority, New York, NY
2019 Juneteenth Discussion with Mildred Howard, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA
Living & Working | Mildred Howard, Art Practical, Berkeley, CA
2017 Mildred Howard talks about her experience with gentrification in Berkeley, The Daily Cal, Berkeley, CA
2016 Artist’s Talk: Mildred Howard, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
2015 Conversation with Mildred Howard, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, VA
2012 Mildred Howard – Culture and Art, Alameda County, CA
3/9 Mildred Howard: Cal Art Alumni Group Symposium X, UCBerkeley, Berkeley, CA
2011 Meet the Artist: Mildred Howard, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2009 Mildred Howard – Abode: Sanctuary for the Famila(r), San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2007 Mildred Howard American Artist, 2m, Feb 16, 07, Art in Embassies, Rabat, Morocco
Panels, Lectures, Symposiums and Selection Panels since 1990
2024 One City, One Book Panel: Women in Public Art, Sarah Hotchkiss, Anisa Malady (LIB),
Mildred Howard, Cheryl Derricotte, Lava Thomas
pT2 Gallery, Leah Levy, Squeak Carnwath, Martha Shaw, Mildred Howard in Convesation
500 Capp Street, Mildred Howard in Conversation with Dewey Crumpler
2018 Lecture, Institute of African American Affairs, New York University, NY Panelist, Rainin Foundation, Oakland, CA
2017 Commencement Speaker, University of Art Practice, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
2016 Panelist, California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA
2014 Lecture, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
2013 Panelist, Sitting Between the Sea and the Buildings, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
Lecture, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Department of Art Lecture, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011 Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
A Conversation with Quincy Troupe, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2007 Department of Art, Millis College, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Art Commission Selection Panel for Bay View Opera House, San Francisco, CA
2006 Panelist, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Texas State University, San Marcos
2005 Panelist, Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA Visiting Artist, University of California, Davis
Visiting Artist, di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA
2003 Juror, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Lecture, University of California, Department of Art Practice, Berkeley, CA
2002 Copia Museum for Wine and Food, Napa, CA
Lecture, Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA
Lecture, Remann Hall Juvenile Center, Tacoma, WA
Lecture, San Jose Museum of Art
2001 Art & the Garden, California State University, Monterey Bay Institute of Visual & Public Art, Monterey, CA
Lecture, Department of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
Lecture, Oxbow, Napa, CA
Panelist, African Diasporas in the Old and the New Worlds: Consciousness and
Imagination, Sorbonne, University, Paris, France
Presenter, University of Hawaii, Department of Art, Honolulu, HI
1994 Panelist, A Visual Arts Encounter: African American in Europe, Palais du Luxemburg, Paris, France
Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, Artists in Communities, Washington, DC
1993 Lecturer, University of London, Department of African and Oriental Studies, London, England
Panelist, California State Educators, San Francisco, CA
Panelist, University of Arizona, Department of Art, Tucson, AZ
1991 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1990 Agenda for the 90's, World Collisions, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Grants Review Panelist, NEA Arts in Education, Washington, DC
Panelist, Mid-America College Art Association, Borders and Bridges, San Francisco, CA
Panelist, Why is it Difficult to Criticize Arts of Color, Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
Selection Panel, Earthquake Relief Fund, Northern California Grantmakers for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Selection Panel, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Viewpoints: Discussions with California Artists, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1989 Artist Review Panel, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Organizational Grants Review Panel, Festival 2000, San Francisco, CA
Panelist, Sources of a Distinct Majority, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Panelist, Northern California Sculpture Conference, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
Panelist, The Artists Role in Arts Education, Marin Community Foundation, Larkspur, CA
1988 Grants Review Panel, City of Oakland, Cultural Arts, Oakland, CA
Lecture, San Francisco State University, Department of Art, San Francisco, CA
Panelist, Twenty Years of Bay Area Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1987 Lecture, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
1986 Lecture, Department of Art, California State University, Hayward, CA
Teacher, with Raymond Saunders at Centre International du Manoir Boulouris, Saint Raphael, France
1985 Lecture, Oakland Museum of California
Panelist, California Arts Council, Organizational Grants, Sacramento, CA (until 1987)
1983 Lecture, University of California Art Department, Berkeley, CA
1982 Lecture, University of California Art Department, Berkeley, CA
1980 Lecture, San Francisco State University Social Work & Education Department, San Francisco, CA
Grants & Awards
2026 American Craft Council
Artistic Impact Award, Museum of the African Diaspora
California Arts Council, 50th Anniversary Awardee
2025 Guggenheim Fellowship, Sculpture
2023 Honorary PhD from the California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Honorary PhD from the California State University East Bay
2022 Honored by the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose
2019 National Coalition of 100 Black Women Art Award, San Francisco, CA
2018 Master Artist Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA Magnolia Editions, Oakland, CA
Print Public, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
Douglas G. MacAgy Distinguished Achievement Award, San Francisco Art Institute
2017 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists, Nancy Graves Foundation, Long Island City, NY
2015 Lee Krasner Award, Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
2014 Master Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts
2012 Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame, Oakland, CA
SPUR Award, San Francisco, CA
California State Senate, Certificate of Recognition in Arts & Culture, Senator Ellen Corbett
California Legislature, Assembly Certificate of Recognition, Artistic Achievement & Exceptional Impact on Alameda County, Assembly Member Nancy Skinner, 14th District
Certificate of Honor, City & County of San Francisco Office of the Assessor-Recorder, Phil Ting, Assessor-Recorder of San Francisco
California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition, Induction into the Alameda
County Women’s Hall of Fame, Sandre R. Swanson, Assembly Member 16th Assembly District
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, Invaluable Service to the Community Nancy Pelosi, Member of Congress
2010 Master Artist, Pilchulk Glass, Stanwood, WA
2007-10 Rockefeller Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy Creating a Lasting Legacy Project, Joan Mitchell Foundation
2004/05 Joan Mitchell Award
2003 Sculpture Fellowship, California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA
O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2001 Visual Arts Award, Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA
Certificate of Congressional Recognition, African American Museum & Congress Woman, Barbara Lee
2000 Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation
1996 Residency, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy
Fellowship, Eureka Fellowship, Flieshhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1994 Fellowship, Art Matters, New York, NY
1992/93 Fellowship, Lila Wallace Readers Digest Traveling Fellowship, Oaxaca, Mexico
Fellowship in Sculpture, National Endowment for the Arts
1991 Award, Stipend, Catalogue, Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1990 Fellowship in Mixed Media, California Arts Council
1985 Award, The Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA
Nominee for the Fifth Annual Awards in the Visual Arts
1984 Small Project Award, InterArts of Marin, San Rafael, CA
Flying Colors Flag Competition, Second Prize, Oakland, CA
1975 Bank of America Award, Oakland, CA
1963 Scholarship, Ruth Beckford's Afro-Haitian Dance Studio
Professional Affiliations
Current Community Advisory Council, Artists Space Trust
2021 Advisory Committee, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2010 Board of Directors, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Board of Directors, Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture, Oakland, CA
Artists Advisory Committee, Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
Advisory Board, Dimensions Dance Theatre
1995-2004 Board of Trustees, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1989-91 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Miami, FL
1985-87 InterArts of Marin, San Rafael, CA
1985 Advisory Committee, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
1981-82 Technical Advisory Committee, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1980-82 Art Commissioner, City of Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Select Bibliography
2024 SF Chronicle Bay Area Fall Art 2024. San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, September 5, 2024.
SF Examiner San Francisco Art Guide Best Shows in Fall 2024. San Francisco Examiner, September 10, 2024.
Galpin, Pierre-Francois. 10 Bay Area Artists That Shaped the San Francisco Art Scene. The Collector, June 12, 2024
2021 Bravo, Tony. “Mildred Howard talks about race, museums and how the art world needs to continue evolving in 2021.” SF Chronicle, Datebook. February 24, 2021.
Leibovitz Steinman, Susan. “Mildred Howard.” Wead Magazine. Issue No. 11/ 2021.
Battery Park City Authority. “Battery Park City Authority Introduces a Glass House to Belvedere Plaza.” Hyperallergic. February 11, 2021.
Janiak, Lilly. “10 Bay Area artists on the presidential changeover from Trump to Biden.” SF Chronicle. January 13, 2021.
James, Yoland M., Bay Area Artist Ponder Transition, San Francisco Chronicle Datebook page 8, Jan 17-23, 2021
2020 Michno, Christopher. “Mildred Howard.” Artillery. November 10, 2020.
Kron, Cat. “Mildred Howard: A Survey, 1978 - 2020.” ArtReview. October Issue, Print.
Simmons, Jessica. “Mildred Howard at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery.” Contemporary Art Review LA. September 16, 2020.
Kane, Jenny. “Basquiat to Beyonce: Nevada Museum of Art features diverse artworks in 'World Stage' exhibition.” Reno Gazette Journal. June 30, 2020.
Schwendener, Martha. “The Art Show at the Armory: Blue-Chip Brands Show Their Best.” The New York Times, February 27, 2020.
Bravo, Tony. “Ambitious work is on display at Anglim/Trimble.” San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, page 6 Sunday, November 22-28, 2020
Object Lessons, Mildred Howard, Sculpture Magazine, May/June/2020 VOl 39, Page 112
2019 Mendel, Emily S. “Striking artwork by long-time Berkeley resident, artist Mildred Howard installed at OMCA.” Berkeleyside, March 1, 2019.
Public Affairs. “Berkeley Talks: Berkeley artist Mildred Howard on the impact of gentrification in the Bay Area.” UCBerkeley News. June 24, 2019.
Curiel, Jonathan.” Mildred Howard, Black Oakland, and the Power of Memory.” SF Weekly, March 7, 2019
Hill, Doug. “Fred Jones presents exhibition by West Coast artist Mildred Howard.” The Transcript, January 24, 2019.
2018 Taylor, Tracey. ‘Welcome to the neighborhood’: New film shines light on a changing Berkeley” Berkelyside, March 21, 2018.
2017 Whiting, Sam. “Berkeley’s beloved homegrown artist Mildred Howard priced out.” SF Chronicle. January 6, 2017.
Vandenburgh, Jane. “Mildred Howard at the Richmond Art Center: Art as Weapon, Art as Shelter.” Huffpost, December 6, 2017.
2015 Hamlin, Jesse. “Why Mildred Howard wields 130 butcher knives for art.” SFGate, March 18, 2015.
2006 Porter-Troupe, Margaret. “Transforming Space, the Art of Mildred Howard,” Off the Wall, The Green, Golf Beyond the Links, p. 44, February - March 2006.
2005 Gant, Michael S. “House of Memory,” Metroactive Art, May 2005.
2003 Richters, Christian. “The Next Seven Wonders,” Conde Nast, p. 99, April 2003.
Von Busak, Richard. “Two Houses,” Metro Arts, May 2003.
Hadani, Ditmars. “Architecture, Heart of Glass,” Western Interiors and Design, July/August 2003
Schorr, Melisa. “Honoring the Dead,” Bay Area Living, The Oakland Tribune, October 21, 2003.
Shipp Bartlett, Mary, ed. “Faculty in Residence: In the Classroom with Mildred Howard,” Scripps, The Women’s College, Vol. 76, no. 1, Spring 2003.
2002 Raihala, Ross. “Touch of Glass, Tacoma Museum Tribute to Native Son,” The Olympian, front page, June 26, 2002.
Reif, Rita. “A Pyramid for New Treasures of an Age-Old Art,” The New York Times, Art/ Architecture, p. 26, Sunday, July 21, 2002.
Zinko, Carolyne. “The Scene,” Living Style, San Francisco Chronicle, p. E9, June 30, 2002.
Anderson, Peggy. “Ex-San Jose Museum Chief Remakes Tacoma Facility,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 2002.
Clark, Jon (editor). “Pursuit,” Southwest Airlines Magazine, p. 21, August 2002.
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Clarifying a Vision,” Los Angeles Times, Calendar, p. 68, Sunday, July 7, 2002.
Gantenbein, Douglas. “Reflections on a Glass Museum,” The Wall Street Journal, Leisure & Arts, July 23, 2002.
el-Jesri, Manal. “The Colors of Memory: African American artist Mildred Howard comes to Alex & Mansoora Haasan Revisits her Roots,” Egypt Today, p. 26, March 2002.
Graves, Jen. “Art in the Outdoors,” The News Tribune, Soundlife, Saturday, July 6, 2002.
“Glass Acts,” The News Tribune, June 30, 2002.
Kendricks, Neil. “‘I-5 Resurfacing’ at the San Diego Museum,” Artweek, June 2002.
Kidd, Sue. “Glass Acts: The New Museum of Glass a work of Art,” The South County Journal, Etainment, p. D1, The News Tribune, July 1, 2002.
“Tacoma a Pleasant Surprise to Press Pack” The News Tribune, front page, June 26, 2002.
Robinson, Kathryn. “Art of Glass: Tacoma’s New Museum Bridges the City’s Past & its Future,” p. 48-49, November/December 2002.
Troupe, Quincy, ed. “Mildred Howard: Salvaging Historical Memory for Future Inspiration,”
African Voices: A Soulful Collection of Art and Literature, The Gallery, p. 44, Fall/Winter 2002.
2001 Baker, Chip. “21 Visionaries for the 21st Century,” Diablo: The Magazine of the East Bay, January 2001.
2000 Amirrezvani, Anita. “Feat on the Ground, Giant Artworks are Helping Create Welcoming Identity at San Francisco Airport,” San Jose Mercury News, July 31, 2000.
Baker, Kenneth. “Terminal’s Art has its Ups and Downs,” San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, April 27, 2000.
Bonetti, David. “Art That Soars,” San Francisco Examiner, Art & Ideas, October 8, 2000.
Dingus, Ginger. “Terminal Bliss: San Francisco,” United Airlines Hemisphere, p. 40, October 2000.
Mays, Jon. “ART-to-SFO Public Art goes on Display at San Francisco airport’s New International Terminal,” The Sun Independent, Millbrae & San Bruno, CA, August 9, 2000.
Roth, Charlene. “Mildred Howard at Louis Stern Fine Arts,” ArtWeek, May 2000.
Roth, Moria. “Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Artists.”
Sadar, Zahid. “Flight Patterns, San Francisco’s New International,” San Francisco Examiner Magazine, September 3, 2000.
Tendall, Blair. “SFO Terminal Becomes a Museum,” Contra Costa Times, Vol. 8, no. 57, July 27, 2000.
Whittaker, Richard. “The Larger Thing in the World,” Works + Conversations, The Garden as Art, No. 3, Spring 2000.
1999 Burrows, David. “Compulsory Reading,” Art Monthly, 1999.
Quill, Patty. “SFAI Artists in Full View,” San Francisco Art Institute Magazine of Art, Ideas, and Information, Vol. 3, no. 1, Fall 1999.
1998 Ollman, Leah. Art in America, Reviews, p. 109 + 111, March 1998.
Temin, Christine. “Art in the Frame of History,” The Boston Globe, Living Arts, September 11, 1998.
1997 McClay, Catherine. “Compelling, Chaotic Visions of Award Winning Artists,” San Jose Mercury News, March 7, 1997.
Payton, Brenda. “Artist Uses Family Memories as Inspiration for Her Works,” Oakland Tribune, March 30, 1997.
1996 Fisher, Sherry. “Photo Exhibit Showcases Personal Histories,” Advance, University of Connecticut, November 1, 1996.
Guiliano, Charles. Arts Review, The Improper Bostonian, April 24-May 7, 1996.
Hamlin, Jessie. “Meaning and Memory in Ephemera: Transforming Familiar Objects into Art,” San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook p. E1.
Hemp, Christine. “Mildred Howard, Hung Liu, Virginia Dehn,” The Magazine, May 1996.
Silver, Joanne. “Panned Expressions: Mildred Howard opens a window to personal art and social comment,” The Boston Globe, April 12, 1996.
1995 Bell, David. “Exhibition of Black Art Transcends Racial Labels,” Journal North, June 11, 1995.
Bickerdike, Mark. “Causality of War,” Yorkshire Post, Bradford & Pennine News, England.
McEvilley, Thomas. Insite 94, Artforum, Summer 1995.
Thlym, Jolene. “A Feminist Perspective,” The Oakland Tribune, Cue, March 2, 1995.
1994 “Future Now at Capp Street,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 26, 1994.
“Remarkable Openings for Capp Street,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 2, 1994.
McKenna, Kristine. “Survey Offers Upbeat View of Black Experience in America,” Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1994.
Saltus, Richard. “Memories are Made of this: Facts, fantasies, fiction,” The Boston Globe, May 30, 1994.
Santiago, Chiori. “Mildred Howard: Home,” The Museum of California, 25th Anniversary Issue, Vol. 18, Summer 1994.
Tromble, Meredith. “Talking with Mildred Howard,” Handout from the San Jose Museum of Art, May 1994.
1993 Roche, Harry. “Critics Choice,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 8, 1993.
Stapen, Nancy. “Elusive Moments Captures in Paint,” Boston Globe, April 22, 1993.
1992 Balsamo, Dean. “African American Show is Must See,” Pastiempo, Santa Fe, June 12-18, 1992.
Barosh, Miyoshi. “Mildred Howard, Memory Garden Phase II,” Now Time, No. 2, 1992.
1991 “A Proper Women’s Show at TransAmerican Pyramid,” San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, May 11, 1991.
Burkhart, Dorothy P. “Statement on Soweto Killings,” San Jose Mercury News, March 22, 1991.
de Lappe, Pele. “Artists Recall Soweto Massacre,” People’s Daily World, March 17, 1991.
Helfand, Glen. “California, Mildred Howard,” New Art Examiner, p. 51, May 1991.
Porges, Maria. “Mildred Howard,” ArtForum, p. 152, May 1991.
Roche, Harry. “Critics Choice,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 7, 1991.
Smith, Roberta. “When Medium Doesn’t Agree with the Message,” The New York Times, August 28, 1991.
1990 Frank, Peter. Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, February 23, 1990.
Le Falle-Collins, Lizetta. “Emerging Artists-New Expressions,” Exhibition Catalogue, California Arfo-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1990.
Lewis, Samella. “Last Train from Dixie & $1.25, A Series by Mildred Howard,” Black Art International Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 4, p. 9-15.
Art: African American, Second Edition (revised), Los Angeles, Handcraft Studios, p. 280-281, 1990.
1989 “Environments by Four Women,” People’s Daily World, September 26, 1989.
Roche, Harry. “Multicultural Imagery,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 13, 1989.
Soe, Vallerie. “Voices Beyond the Dominant Culture,” ArtWeek, September 23, 1989.
Westcott, Gloria. “Exploracion Artistica de la Diversidad Cultural,” Tiempo Latino, September 27, 1989.
1986 Young, Al. “Black Heritage: A Month of Revelations at the Oakland Museum,” San Francisco Examiner Image Magazine, February 9, 1986.
1985 Henderson, Robin. “All the New That’s Picked to Print,” Metier, p. 12-13, Winter 1985.
Marks, Laurie. Profiles, Metier, Spring 1985.
1984 Bragdon, Phyllis. “She Made a Performance Installation,” Marin Independent Journal, August 30, 1984.
Curtis, Cathy. “Linking Art with Daily Life,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 1984.
Silverman, Jan. “Flags of Many Hues to Adorn Oakland,” Oakland Tribune, May 24, 1984.
1981 “Deifying Personal Trivia,” ArtWeek, p. 6, October 17, 1981.
DuBois, Emily. “Charting the Growth of Fiber Art,” ArtWeek, November 12, 1981.
Ertz, Arla. Reviews and Announcements, Black Art International Quarterly, Volume 2, No. 4, p. 58-59.
1980 Albright, Thomas. “Last Train from Dixie,” San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, February 3, 1980.
Boettger, Susan. “Sew and Show,” The Daily California, February 1, 1980.
“Copyrites and Wrongs,” ArtWeek, Oakland, July 5, 1980.
“Threads of Line, Form, and Meaning,” ArtWeek, p. 5, February 2, 1980.
Shere, Charles. “From Blue Horses to Energetic Still Life,” Oakland Tribune, February 22, 1980.
1979 “A Variety of Media,” San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, March 13, 1979.
“Ambushed People and Tacky Urban Structures,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 1979.
Select Books & Catalogs
2019 Red: Architecture in Monochrome, Phaidon Press, P. 95
Mildred Howard, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
2006 Davis, James W., Hybrid Culture: Mix-Art, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, IA P. 161-165
2005 LaFalle-Collins, Lizzetta, Dispersed, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2004 Meehan, C. ICA/Vita Brevis: History, Landscape, and Art 1998 – 2003. P. 34-37
2003 Bullis, Douglas, 100 Artists of the West Coast, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, Atglen, PA, P. 88
Gedeon, Lucinda Ph.D., Neuberger Museum of Art 2003 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Purchase, NY
Art-Sites San Francisco, The Indispensable Guide to Contemporary Art- Artchitecture-Design, Sidra Stich, P. 43
the not so-still life: A century of California Painting and Sculpture, Susan Landauer, William H. Gerdts, Patricia Trenton, P. 154-155, 192-93
2002 Burgess Fuller, Dianna & Salvioni Daniella Ed., Art/Women/California Parallels and
Intersections, 1950-2000, University of California Press, P. 60, 64-65, 207, 211, 251
Johnstone, Mark & Holzman, Aboud, Leslie, Epicenter, San Francisco Bay Area Art Now,
Craftsman House in association with G+B Arts International, Sydney, Australia
Gamblin, Noriko & Jacobson, Karen ed., Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists
2001 Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA, P. 36-39
Made in California: Art Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Tanguy, Sarah, Sweet Tooth, Copia, Museum of Wine, Food & Art, Napa, CA, P. 48- 51
2001 Westbrook, Adele, Editor A Creative Legacy, A History of The National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists’ Fellowship Program, Harry Abrams, New York, NY P. 178
2000 Made in California: Art Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Pub. In conjunction with the exhibition Made in California: Art Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art
1999 Lewis, Samella, Dancin': Africanization of American Movement. National Museum and Cultural Center, Weberforce, OH
Chambers, Eddie, Mildred Howard, Bristol, England
Hewitt, Mary Jane, Ph.D., Beyond the Veil, Art of African American Artists at Century's End,
The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, Pg. 8 and P. 30
1997 Jansons, Anthony F. H., H. W. Jansons, History of Art Fifth Edition Revised, 1997, P. 926
Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute: Artists Who Transformed American Culture,
Hacket Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Henderson, Robin & FeFalle-Collins, Lizzetta, Crossings, The Installation Art of Mildred
Howard, The Berkeley Art Center 35th Anniversary Exhibition Catalogue
1996 Schacter, Daniel L., Searching for Memory, the Brain the Mind and the Past, 1996, Chp. 3, P. 112-113
1995 Jansons, Anthony F.H., H. W. Jansons, History of Art Fifth Edition, P. 826 Installation Gallery, InSITE 94, P. 48
Gumbo YaYa: Anthology of Contemporary African American Women Artists, 1995, P. 112-113
Lacy, Suzanne, ed., Mapping the Terrain New Genre Public Art, P. 243 Driskell, David, African American Visual Aesthetics: A Post Modernist View, Smithsonian Institute Press
1994 Time Life, African American Voices of Triumph, P. 236
Villa, Carlos Editor, Worlds in Collision, Dialogues on Multicultural Art Issues, San Francisco Art Institute, P. 53
1993 Schacter, Daniel, Fragile Power: Explorations of Memory Stitch, Sidra, New World DisOrder
1992 Golden, Thelma, 1991 & 1992 Creative Time, New York, NY, Art in the Anchorage Erhlic, Abbey, Washington States Arts Commission, Public Schools Public Art Project, Who We
Are, Autobiographies in Art
1991 Mesa-Bains Amalia & Bettleheim, Judith, Ten Little Children Standing in a Line (one got shot and then there were nine), Mildred Howard, Adaline Kent Award Exhibition
Catalogue, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1990 Lewis Samella, ed. Art: African American, Handcraft Studios, Los Angeles, CA LeFalle-
Collins, Lizzetta, Emerging Artists New Expressions
1989 San Francisco Art Institute Annual Exhibition catalogue, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1987 Barth, Linda, Ed.
Beyond Power: A Celebration, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1985 Lewis, Samella
Spaces: Looking in Looking Out, Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA 1981 Rindfleisch, Jan
Staying Visible, Helen Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1979 Yale, David & E.B. 33rd Annual San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
Public Collections
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn.NY
City of Emeryville
City of Berkeley Civic Arts Commission
City of San Leandro
California State Bldg., San Francisco, CA
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
Dade County Library Art and Music Department, Miami, FL
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Elihu State Bldg., Oakland, CA
Escuela de Artes Plasticas, Managua, Nicaragua
Hampton University, Hampton, VA
Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA
International Museum of Glass & Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA
Jordan Schnitzer Foundation, Eugene, OR
Kaiser Permanente Corporation, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Next Key, Novato, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Penn
Rene and Veronica di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
San Francisco Art Commission
San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Three Guinea Fund, San Francisco, CA
Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
United States Embassy, Gabon
United States Embassy, Senegal
University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
University of Colorado Museum of Art, Boulder, CA
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA
Xavier University, New Orleans, LA
Numerous Private Collections
Gallery Representation
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, New York
Parrash Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles