BIO

Mandy Howe is an artist and art teacher from Rhode Island. She is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. After Art School, Mandy lived off the grid for thirteen years, on a small homestead in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Her paintings and constructions were exhibited at Catamount Film and Arts, the Fleming Museum, the Millhouse Bundy Gallery and the Thomas Hood Gallery in Montpelier as well as in more local galleries. She received a Vermont Council on the Arts Fellowship Award as well as a Juror’s Choice award in the exhibition “Vermont Visual Artists” which included a Residency at the Vermont Studio School.

A native Rhode Islander, Mandy returned to Aquidneck Island to be near family and raise her two children. She taught Middle School Art at the Pennfield School where she designed the curriculum and coordinated the Theater Program. She has taught at the Bradley Hospital Schools, CitiArts and New Urban Arts in Providence, the Newport Art Museum and St. Andrew’s School among others. Recently she served as a RISCA Teaching Artist at the Martin Luther King Community Center where she developed weekly art programs for children and adults.

Mandy is a member of the Deblois Gallery where she exhibits her work annually. Her paintings have been exhibited in Wet Paint and the Annual Juried Member Show at the Newport Art Museum, the Hera Gallery in Wakefield, the Hunter Gallery at St. Georges School, Arnold Art and Spring Bull Galleries in Newport, the Wickford Art Association, Warwick Center for the Arts, Portsmouth Arts Guild, Coggleshell Farm, Clean Ocean Access, “Windows on Pawutucket”, Art League of Rhode Island, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Bromfield Gallery in Boston, and Bristol Art Museum.