Mildred Howard is an installation and mixed-media artist, teacher, and educator. She has received numerous awards and is a two-time recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy (1996 and 2007). Her other honors include the 2004/2005 Joan Mitchell Award; California Arts Council Artists Fellowship; Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts; Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship; an NEA grant in sculpture; a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship to Oaxaca, Mexico; and the Fleischhacker Fellowship. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Mildred received her M.F.A. 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 The Music of Language, a public art piece for affordable housing in San Francisco; Tap: Investigation of Memory; Blackbird in a Red Sky, a.k.a. Fall of the Blood House; and the moving tribute to the children of the Soweto massacre, Ten Little Children Standing in a line (one got shot, and then there were nine).