John Miller Howard

born September 22, 1912 in Alcorn, Mississippidied October 10, 1980 in Pine Bluff, ArkansasA.B. 1934, Alcorn A & M College, Alcorn, Mississippi1938, certificate of art at Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia1937, 1938, 1941, Studied with Hale Woodruff1944-46, studied with Ralph Pearson, Design Workshop, Nyack, New York1949, M.A. in art education, New York University 1949 (summer) Sarah Lawrence College Workshop in Art Psychology 1949 (summer ) New York University 1949, studied with Rudolf Arnheim, Sarah Lawrence CollegeTeaching:began teaching in 1938 at Arkansas Agricultural Mechanical and Noraml College what is now the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff- 1938-39 Atlanta University - 1948-49 New York University- 1950-55 University of Arkansas Graduate CenterIn 1974 he was selected as one of 16 Distinguished Artists in Arkansas.