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Title
From Cotton to Coal… The Last Train
Creator
Howard, Mildred (American installation artist, born 1945)
Contributor
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Sculpture and Installations
San Francisco artist Mildred Howard sited her inSITE94 project in the baggage building of the Santa Fe Depot. Her installation consisted of two components, "Abode: Sanctuary for the Familia(r)/Hogar: el santuario para lo familia(r)" and "From Cotton to Coal ... the Last Train/Del algodón al carbón ... El último tren." As a continuation of her exploration of architectural forms and everyday materials that poetically call forth issues of cultural identity and memory, Howard chose to reinstall "Abode," first created for the San Jose Museum of Art. "Abode" and "From Cotton to Coal" reference Howard's own cultural history as an African-American woman --inSITE94
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 06, Item 156)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Santa Fe Depot (San Diego, Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Coal; raw unbeaten cotton; luggage wagon
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb4644663d
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Labor
Border art
Feminism
African Americans
Political art
History
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
San Diego (Calif.)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE94
Place
San Diego (Calif.)
Mexican-American border region

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