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Cooking With Mildred at OMCA

Cooking with Mildred Howard & Adrian Burrell

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Artists Mildred Howard and Adrian Burrell explore family, memory, and community through their large-scale installations, both featured in recent exhibitions at OMCA. On a Sunday afternoon, they come together in Mildred’s kitchen to bake biscuits, share their personal histories, and discuss their art-making practices.

Experience more of Howard’s remarkable five-decade practice in person at Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory, on view at the Oakland Museum of California through October 18, 2026.

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