Creativity Explored is proud to announce Five and Two Others, a new group exhibition curated by Mildred Howard.
Acclaimed artist Mildred Howard believes, “Art is art, regardless of who makes it.”
In this forthcoming group show, Howard presents selected artworks of five Creativity Explored artists, Vincent Jackson, James Miles, Selene Perez, Evelyn Reyes, and Lance Rivers, alongside two contemporary Bay Area artists, Oliver Lee Jackson and John Moore. Addressing inequities in curatorial practices in the art world, Howard aims to open up a dialogue about artistic representation by presenting groupings of small format works by artists with and without developmental disabilities, with an egalitarian vision and exceptional grace.
Mildred Howard worked as a Visual Arts Instructor in the Creativity Explored studio in the late 1980s during the formative years of the organization. Since that time, Howard has become known for her activism as well as intricately designed installations uncovering what is seldom seen in the realm of art history with a critical focus on race, social justice, and identity. Recently, Howard unveiled a new installation at the Oakland Museum of California entitled Tap: Investigation of Memory.
In returning to the Creativity Explored studio, Howard was struck by the incredible talent and vision of artists with developmental disabilities, and thus, the lack of representation of these artists in the world of contemporary art. Working with the exhibitions team at Creativity Explored, Howard hand-selected small works of five artists, each representing unique visual vocabularies, artistic styles, and personal backgrounds.
In an effort to level the playing the field, Howard has included works by John Moore and Oliver Lee Jackson to share walls of the Creativity Explored gallery, a space typically reserved for artwork produced in the studios. Five and Two Others poses challenging questions to the art world: Why is art produced by artists with developmental disabilities relegated to spaces like Creativity Explored? When will institutions simply appreciate, collect, and exhibit “good art” for what it is?
At the opening reception, Creativity Explored will release a new catalog of Five and Two Others, memorializing Howard’s activist vision and this groundbreaking exhibition. The catalog will include additional artwork not featured on display as well as a curatorial statement from Howard outlining her process and vision. Catalogs will be available for purchase at the event and available in the gallery and on the website.
Opening ReceptionThursday, March 14, 20197:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Donor Preview & VIP Meet & Greet with Mildred Howard*?6:00 pm to 7:00 pm?*To become a donor, click here.
FREE parking available during the opening reception at Mission Dolores Church (enter on Church Street) from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Join us as we celebrate Howard’s new exhibition, steeped with a contemporary activist aesthetic. Creativity Explored donors will enjoy a VIP Meet & Greet with Howard from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Artwork on display by Creativity Explored artists will be available for sale to the public with 50% of proceeds benefitting the artists directly. Inquiries for works by John Moore and Oliver Lee Jackson will be directed to curator Mildred Howard.
About Mildred HowardMildred Howard (b. 1945), installation and mixed-media artist, teacher and educator has received numerous awards including, the 2004/2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the 2003 California Arts Council Artists Fellowship, Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship, An NEA Grant in sculpture, a Rockefeller Artists Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship to Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Fleischhacker Fellowship.
She has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Exhibitions include Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), Neuberger Biennale in Public Art (Purchase, New York), Walcott Chapel (Bath, England), Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA), and Gallery Paule Anglim (San Francisco, CA). Her work is included in collections of the De Young Museum, Oakland Museum of California, San José Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, Connecticut), Washington State Art Commission and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Howard received her MFA degree from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, CA. She is known for her large-scale installations invoking both collective history and persona narrative, such as Tap: Investigation of Memory, Blackbird in a Red Sky, AKA Fall of the Blood House and the 1991 Adaline Kent Award, for which she created her moving tribute to the children of the Soweto massacre, Ten Little Children Standing in a line (one got shot, and then there were nine). In January, 2019, Howard received the Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair from the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art of the University of Oklahoma.
About Oliver Lee JacksonOliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935, St. Louis, Missouri) is a painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, whose works are grounded in figuration. He has collaborated with musicians, writers, and dramatists who include Julius Hemphill, Marty Ehrlich, Quincy Troupe, Paul Carter Harrison, Michael Harper, and others. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum (New York, NY), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and numerous other museums. A solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) in 2019 features recent paintings. Since 1982, Jackson’s studio has been in Oakland, California.
About John MooreJohn Moore (b. 1938, Vicksburg, Mississippi) moved to Oakland at the age of three and has lived in North Oakland since 1957. A prolific artist who eschews the gallery system, Moore rarely shows his work publicly. He was included in a group exhibition at Fiber Works Center for the Textile Arts in the late 1970s alongside contemporaries Raymond Holbert, Arthur Monroe, E.J. Montgomery, and Raymond Saunders; his work also appeared in a 2006 exhibition at Santa Rosa Junior College focusing on the collection of artist Mildred Howard, who curated both of the aforementioned shows. A monograph of his work with an essay by Nick Stone was published in 2018. Moore currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.
Creativity Explored3245 16th StreetSan Francisco, CA 94103www.creativityexplored.orginfo@creativityexplored.orgGallery HoursMonday - Friday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PMThursday from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PMSaturday from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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Acclaimed artist Mildred Howard believes, “Art is art, regardless of who makes it.”
In this forthcoming group show, Howard presents selected artworks of five Creativity Explored artists, Vincent Jackson, James Miles, Selene Perez, Evelyn Reyes, and Lance Rivers, alongside two contemporary Bay Area artists, Oliver Lee Jackson and John Moore. Addressing inequities in curatorial practices in the art world, Howard aims to open up a dialogue about artistic representation by presenting groupings of small format works by artists with and without developmental disabilities, with an egalitarian vision and exceptional grace.
Mildred Howard worked as a Visual Arts Instructor in the Creativity Explored studio in the late 1980s during the formative years of the organization. Since that time, Howard has become known for her activism as well as intricately designed installations uncovering what is seldom seen in the realm of art history with a critical focus on race, social justice, and identity. Recently, Howard unveiled a new installation at the Oakland Museum of California entitled Tap: Investigation of Memory.
In returning to the Creativity Explored studio, Howard was struck by the incredible talent and vision of artists with developmental disabilities, and thus, the lack of representation of these artists in the world of contemporary art. Working with the exhibitions team at Creativity Explored, Howard hand-selected small works of five artists, each representing unique visual vocabularies, artistic styles, and personal backgrounds.
In an effort to level the playing the field, Howard has included works by John Moore and Oliver Lee Jackson to share walls of the Creativity Explored gallery, a space typically reserved for artwork produced in the studios. Five and Two Others poses challenging questions to the art world: Why is art produced by artists with developmental disabilities relegated to spaces like Creativity Explored? When will institutions simply appreciate, collect, and exhibit “good art” for what it is?
At the opening reception, Creativity Explored will release a new catalog of Five and Two Others, memorializing Howard’s activist vision and this groundbreaking exhibition. The catalog will include additional artwork not featured on display as well as a curatorial statement from Howard outlining her process and vision. Catalogs will be available for purchase at the event and available in the gallery and on the website.
Opening ReceptionThursday, March 14, 20197:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Donor Preview & VIP Meet & Greet with Mildred Howard*?6:00 pm to 7:00 pm?*To become a donor, click here.
FREE parking available during the opening reception at Mission Dolores Church (enter on Church Street) from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Join us as we celebrate Howard’s new exhibition, steeped with a contemporary activist aesthetic. Creativity Explored donors will enjoy a VIP Meet & Greet with Howard from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Artwork on display by Creativity Explored artists will be available for sale to the public with 50% of proceeds benefitting the artists directly. Inquiries for works by John Moore and Oliver Lee Jackson will be directed to curator Mildred Howard.
About Mildred HowardMildred Howard (b. 1945), installation and mixed-media artist, teacher and educator has received numerous awards including, the 2004/2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the 2003 California Arts Council Artists Fellowship, Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship, An NEA Grant in sculpture, a Rockefeller Artists Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship to Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Fleischhacker Fellowship.
She has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Exhibitions include Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), Neuberger Biennale in Public Art (Purchase, New York), Walcott Chapel (Bath, England), Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA), and Gallery Paule Anglim (San Francisco, CA). Her work is included in collections of the De Young Museum, Oakland Museum of California, San José Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, Connecticut), Washington State Art Commission and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Howard received her MFA degree from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, CA. She is known for her large-scale installations invoking both collective history and persona narrative, such as Tap: Investigation of Memory, Blackbird in a Red Sky, AKA Fall of the Blood House and the 1991 Adaline Kent Award, for which she created her moving tribute to the children of the Soweto massacre, Ten Little Children Standing in a line (one got shot, and then there were nine). In January, 2019, Howard received the Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair from the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art of the University of Oklahoma.
About Oliver Lee JacksonOliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935, St. Louis, Missouri) is a painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, whose works are grounded in figuration. He has collaborated with musicians, writers, and dramatists who include Julius Hemphill, Marty Ehrlich, Quincy Troupe, Paul Carter Harrison, Michael Harper, and others. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum (New York, NY), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and numerous other museums. A solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) in 2019 features recent paintings. Since 1982, Jackson’s studio has been in Oakland, California.
About John MooreJohn Moore (b. 1938, Vicksburg, Mississippi) moved to Oakland at the age of three and has lived in North Oakland since 1957. A prolific artist who eschews the gallery system, Moore rarely shows his work publicly. He was included in a group exhibition at Fiber Works Center for the Textile Arts in the late 1970s alongside contemporaries Raymond Holbert, Arthur Monroe, E.J. Montgomery, and Raymond Saunders; his work also appeared in a 2006 exhibition at Santa Rosa Junior College focusing on the collection of artist Mildred Howard, who curated both of the aforementioned shows. A monograph of his work with an essay by Nick Stone was published in 2018. Moore currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.
Creativity Explored3245 16th StreetSan Francisco, CA 94103www.creativityexplored.orginfo@creativityexplored.orgGallery HoursMonday - Friday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PMThursday from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PMSaturday from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Sign up for the Creativity Explored email list to find out about special events, exhibitions, and studio happenings!
Creativity Explored is proud to announce Five and Two Others, a new group exhibition curated by Mildred Howard.
Acclaimed artist Mildred Howard believes, “Art is art, regardless of who makes it.”
In this forthcoming group show, Howard presents selected artworks of five Creativity Explored artists, Vincent Jackson, James Miles, Selene Perez, Evelyn Reyes, and Lance Rivers, alongside two contemporary Bay Area artists, Oliver Lee Jackson and John Moore. Addressing inequities in curatorial practices in the art world, Howard aims to open up a dialogue about artistic representation by presenting groupings of small format works by artists with and without developmental disabilities, with an egalitarian vision and exceptional grace.
Mildred Howard worked as a Visual Arts Instructor in the Creativity Explored studio in the late 1980s during the formative years of the organization. Since that time, Howard has become known for her activism as well as intricately designed installations uncovering what is seldom seen in the realm of art history with a critical focus on race, social justice, and identity. Recently, Howard unveiled a new installation at the Oakland Museum of California entitled Tap: Investigation of Memory.
In returning to the Creativity Explored studio, Howard was struck by the incredible talent and vision of artists with developmental disabilities, and thus, the lack of representation of these artists in the world of contemporary art. Working with the exhibitions team at Creativity Explored, Howard hand-selected small works of five artists, each representing unique visual vocabularies, artistic styles, and personal backgrounds.
In an effort to level the playing the field, Howard has included works by John Moore and Oliver Lee Jackson to share walls of the Creativity Explored gallery, a space typically reserved for artwork produced in the studios. Five and Two Others poses challenging questions to the art world: Why is art produced by artists with developmental disabilities relegated to spaces like Creativity Explored? When will institutions simply appreciate, collect, and exhibit “good art” for what it is?
At the opening reception, Creativity Explored will release a new catalog of Five and Two Others, memorializing Howard’s activist vision and this groundbreaking exhibition. The catalog will include additional artwork not featured on display as well as a curatorial statement from Howard outlining her process and vision. Catalogs will be available for purchase at the event and available in the gallery and on the website.
Opening ReceptionThursday, March 14, 20197:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Donor Preview & VIP Meet & Greet with Mildred Howard*?6:00 pm to 7:00 pm?*To become a donor, click here.
FREE parking available during the opening reception at Mission Dolores Church (enter on Church Street) from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Join us as we celebrate Howard’s new exhibition, steeped with a contemporary activist aesthetic. Creativity Explored donors will enjoy a VIP Meet & Greet with Howard from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Artwork on display by Creativity Explored artists will be available for sale to the public with 50% of proceeds benefitting the artists directly. Inquiries for works by John Moore and Oliver Lee Jackson will be directed to curator Mildred Howard.
About Mildred HowardMildred Howard (b. 1945), installation and mixed-media artist, teacher and educator has received numerous awards including, the 2004/2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the 2003 California Arts Council Artists Fellowship, Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship, An NEA Grant in sculpture, a Rockefeller Artists Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship to Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Fleischhacker Fellowship.
She has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Exhibitions include Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), Neuberger Biennale in Public Art (Purchase, New York), Walcott Chapel (Bath, England), Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA), and Gallery Paule Anglim (San Francisco, CA). Her work is included in collections of the De Young Museum, Oakland Museum of California, San José Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, Connecticut), Washington State Art Commission and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Howard received her MFA degree from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, CA. She is known for her large-scale installations invoking both collective history and persona narrative, such as Tap: Investigation of Memory, Blackbird in a Red Sky, AKA Fall of the Blood House and the 1991 Adaline Kent Award, for which she created her moving tribute to the children of the Soweto massacre, Ten Little Children Standing in a line (one got shot, and then there were nine). In January, 2019, Howard received the Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair from the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art of the University of Oklahoma.
About Oliver Lee JacksonOliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935, St. Louis, Missouri) is a painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, whose works are grounded in figuration. He has collaborated with musicians, writers, and dramatists who include Julius Hemphill, Marty Ehrlich, Quincy Troupe, Paul Carter Harrison, Michael Harper, and others. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum (New York, NY), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and numerous other museums. A solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) in 2019 features recent paintings. Since 1982, Jackson’s studio has been in Oakland, California.
About John MooreJohn Moore (b. 1938, Vicksburg, Mississippi) moved to Oakland at the age of three and has lived in North Oakland since 1957. A prolific artist who eschews the gallery system, Moore rarely shows his work publicly. He was included in a group exhibition at Fiber Works Center for the Textile Arts in the late 1970s alongside contemporaries Raymond Holbert, Arthur Monroe, E.J. Montgomery, and Raymond Saunders; his work also appeared in a 2006 exhibition at Santa Rosa Junior College focusing on the collection of artist Mildred Howard, who curated both of the aforementioned shows. A monograph of his work with an essay by Nick Stone was published in 2018. Moore currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.
Creativity Explored3245 16th StreetSan Francisco, CA 94103www.creativityexplored.orginfo@creativityexplored.orgGallery HoursMonday - Friday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PMThursday from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PMSaturday from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Sign up for the Creativity Explored email list to find out about special events, exhibitions, and studio happenings!
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Acclaimed artist Mildred Howard believes, “Art is art, regardless of who makes it.”
In this forthcoming group show, Howard presents selected artworks of five Creativity Explored artists, Vincent Jackson, James Miles, Selene Perez, Evelyn Reyes, and Lance Rivers, alongside two contemporary Bay Area artists, Oliver Lee Jackson and John Moore. Addressing inequities in curatorial practices in the art world, Howard aims to open up a dialogue about artistic representation by presenting groupings of small format works by artists with and without developmental disabilities, with an egalitarian vision and exceptional grace.
Mildred Howard worked as a Visual Arts Instructor in the Creativity Explored studio in the late 1980s during the formative years of the organization. Since that time, Howard has become known for her activism as well as intricately designed installations uncovering what is seldom seen in the realm of art history with a critical focus on race, social justice, and identity. Recently, Howard unveiled a new installation at the Oakland Museum of California entitled Tap: Investigation of Memory.
In returning to the Creativity Explored studio, Howard was struck by the incredible talent and vision of artists with developmental disabilities, and thus, the lack of representation of these artists in the world of contemporary art. Working with the exhibitions team at Creativity Explored, Howard hand-selected small works of five artists, each representing unique visual vocabularies, artistic styles, and personal backgrounds.
In an effort to level the playing the field, Howard has included works by John Moore and Oliver Lee Jackson to share walls of the Creativity Explored gallery, a space typically reserved for artwork produced in the studios. Five and Two Others poses challenging questions to the art world: Why is art produced by artists with developmental disabilities relegated to spaces like Creativity Explored? When will institutions simply appreciate, collect, and exhibit “good art” for what it is?
At the opening reception, Creativity Explored will release a new catalog of Five and Two Others, memorializing Howard’s activist vision and this groundbreaking exhibition. The catalog will include additional artwork not featured on display as well as a curatorial statement from Howard outlining her process and vision. Catalogs will be available for purchase at the event and available in the gallery and on the website.
Opening ReceptionThursday, March 14, 20197:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Donor Preview & VIP Meet & Greet with Mildred Howard*?6:00 pm to 7:00 pm?*To become a donor, click here.
FREE parking available during the opening reception at Mission Dolores Church (enter on Church Street) from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Join us as we celebrate Howard’s new exhibition, steeped with a contemporary activist aesthetic. Creativity Explored donors will enjoy a VIP Meet & Greet with Howard from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Artwork on display by Creativity Explored artists will be available for sale to the public with 50% of proceeds benefitting the artists directly. Inquiries for works by John Moore and Oliver Lee Jackson will be directed to curator Mildred Howard.
About Mildred HowardMildred Howard (b. 1945), installation and mixed-media artist, teacher and educator has received numerous awards including, the 2004/2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the 2003 California Arts Council Artists Fellowship, Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship, An NEA Grant in sculpture, a Rockefeller Artists Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship to Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Fleischhacker Fellowship.
She has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Exhibitions include Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), Neuberger Biennale in Public Art (Purchase, New York), Walcott Chapel (Bath, England), Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA), and Gallery Paule Anglim (San Francisco, CA). Her work is included in collections of the De Young Museum, Oakland Museum of California, San José Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, Connecticut), Washington State Art Commission and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Howard received her MFA degree from John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, CA. She is known for her large-scale installations invoking both collective history and persona narrative, such as Tap: Investigation of Memory, Blackbird in a Red Sky, AKA Fall of the Blood House and the 1991 Adaline Kent Award, for which she created her moving tribute to the children of the Soweto massacre, Ten Little Children Standing in a line (one got shot, and then there were nine). In January, 2019, Howard received the Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist Chair from the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art of the University of Oklahoma.
About Oliver Lee JacksonOliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935, St. Louis, Missouri) is a painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, whose works are grounded in figuration. He has collaborated with musicians, writers, and dramatists who include Julius Hemphill, Marty Ehrlich, Quincy Troupe, Paul Carter Harrison, Michael Harper, and others. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum (New York, NY), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and numerous other museums. A solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) in 2019 features recent paintings. Since 1982, Jackson’s studio has been in Oakland, California.
About John MooreJohn Moore (b. 1938, Vicksburg, Mississippi) moved to Oakland at the age of three and has lived in North Oakland since 1957. A prolific artist who eschews the gallery system, Moore rarely shows his work publicly. He was included in a group exhibition at Fiber Works Center for the Textile Arts in the late 1970s alongside contemporaries Raymond Holbert, Arthur Monroe, E.J. Montgomery, and Raymond Saunders; his work also appeared in a 2006 exhibition at Santa Rosa Junior College focusing on the collection of artist Mildred Howard, who curated both of the aforementioned shows. A monograph of his work with an essay by Nick Stone was published in 2018. Moore currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.
Creativity Explored3245 16th StreetSan Francisco, CA 94103www.creativityexplored.orginfo@creativityexplored.orgGallery HoursMonday - Friday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PMThursday from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PMSaturday from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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