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Pindell, Howardena, 1943-

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Personal name headingPindell, Howardena, 1943-
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1943-05-14
Place of birthPhiladelphia (Pa.)
Field of activityMixed media (Art)
AffiliationBoston University Yale University. School of Art and Architecture Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) State University of New York at Stony Brook Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Civil rights workers Painters
Found inHer Howardena Pindell, odyssey, c1986: title page (Howardena Pindell) page 5 (black female painter) page 15 (b. 4-14-43 in Phila.)
African American National Biography, accessed April 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Pindell, Howardena; civil rights activist, painter, art museum curator, professor; she is known as a mixed media artist (b. 14 May 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States); BFA from Boston University; MFA from Yale University's School of Art and Architecture (1967); exhibition assistant (1967) and associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1979); associate professor, full professor and director of MFA program at State University of New York at Stony Brook (1979); visiting artist at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (1980); received Stony Brook University Service Award for Twenty-five Years of Service (2005); Louisiana Art and Science Museum mounted her exhibition Howardena Pindell: Hidden Histories (2007))