Mildred Howard Announces First NFT Drop
The artist will honor Black History Month with her Millennials & XYZ collection
Artist, sculptor, and designer Mildred Howard will release her first NFT drop. The collection, powered by Decrypt Studios, features images of African-American youth faded into silhouette, with key personal and environmental flourishes brightened into brilliant color.
Howard’s work has been shown at the de Young Museum, SFMOMA, and the Museum of the African Diaspora, among many others. She is a recipient of the Lee Krasner Life Time Achievement Award, two Rockefeller Fellowships, the Joan Mitchell Award, an NEA Fellowship in Sculpture, and the Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Art. The daughter of prominent Californian civil rights activists, she was raised steeped in the traditions of the equal rights, labor, and humanitarian movements. Information on how to create a wallet and bid on NFTs can be found at this link.
About the images, the artist draws on the experience of African American youth in and out of their communities:
"...young black men are still faced with a culture that pathologizes them based on the black-and-white worldview of an earlier era. Is it any wonder that they might dress like desert wanderers as they traverse this inhospitable landscape, confronted with an entire nation still grappling with the poisonous legacy of the past century's racism?"
"Still the youth in these prints are undeterred; they cast shadows that obscure the past, stepping off the page and out of the margins in vibrant color, determined to make their own mark. As the status quo is disrupted by a new wave seeking their right to wear their clothing and their hair the way they want to, I feel the same energy in the air and hear the same fervent heartbeat as during the 1960s and 70s." —Mildred Howard