Stories from Caney Creek: Prairie View, Date unknown
Mildred Howard
(American, born 1945)
Location: Meadow Ridge Elementary, Mead
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Stories from Caney Creek: Prairie View presents an altered and hand-colored photo of three women posing by a car. The photo has drawings and markings around it, and it is framed in a repurposed window frame accented by buttons. Artist Mildred Howard combines found objects, salvaged windows, and family photographs to depict stories and memories. The artwork commemorates the people and places of her mother's childhood in rural Texas.
This artwork is part of a series of mixed-media assemblages created by Mildred Howard for the collection "Who We Are: Autobiographies in Art." The series was commissioned by the Washington State Arts Commission in partnership with the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1990.
This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Who We Are: Autobiographies in Art Collection.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Artist Mildred Howard works in multiple mediums, including mixed media, collage, and sculpture. Her work is about the universal connections between people and place separated by arbitrary borders. Howard is a Bay Area artist who is African American.
Howard is a native of San Francisco. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California in 1985. She has received many awards and fellowships including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the Lee Krasner Award in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her artworks are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, and many more.
ARTWORK DETAILS
Material Category | Sculpture - mixed media |
Medium | Mixed media collage |
Dimensions | 24 in x 28 in x 5 in |
ID Number | WSAC1990.159.000 |
Acquisition Method | Site responsive commission |
Artist Location | California, United States |
Location Information
Agency | Mead School District |
Artwork Location | Meadow Ridge Elementary Hallway, Outside staff room |
WA County | Spokane |
Placement | Interior |
Site Type | Public School |
Address | 15601 N Freya St. Mead, WA 99021 |
Geo. Coordinates | 47.799640, -117.358595 |
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