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 for twenty years. She designed the curriculum and was the Artistic Coordinator of 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. She received a recent RISCA Project Grant in Education to provide classroom art activities in the Diversity Classes at the Pennfield School for 2024-2025.

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’s Shows at the Newport Art Museum, Hera Gallery, Spring Bull Gallery, Wickford Art Association, Warwick Center for the Arts, Portsmouth Arts Guild, Clean Ocean Access, Art League of Rhode Island, Bristol Art Museum, South County Art Association, Bromfield Gallery in Boston and more. Her paintings are included in many private and permanent collections. In 2025 Mandy was selected as a week long Rose Island Foundation “Artist in Residence”. She was given the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Newport County Award in support of her Aquidneck Land Trust series.