An In-Shop Dialog with Local Artist Howard Newman (Nov. 1, 8, 22)

The life of an artist is unique and captivating. In recent years, local artist Howard Newman and his team have been involved in three fascinating projects: two new ceremonial maces for Yale University –for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Jackson School of Global Affairs, and the creation of the channel for Newport’s new Spring Park. Their projects involve dialogue with the owners, talented subcontractors and assistants and the tools themselves.

Join Howard in a running, free-form dialogue about producing and creating bronze sculptures and about his work as a conservator, restorer and designer of fine art objects.

Howard Newman studied architecture, anthropology and classics at Miami University of Ohio. He received a MFA from RISD and was awarded a Fulbright grant to Italy where he began making bronze sculptures. Howard and his wife, Mary, later returned to Italy for a year with their two young children, where he created the two bronzes on the grounds of the Newport Art Museum. During the 1990s, he taught drawing and three-dimensional design at RISD. Howard’s works are in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Newport Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Newark Museum and San Francisco Fine Arts Museum. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Tiffany Foundation and The American Academy in Rome. Currently the Newmans work as Newmans Ltd., Fine Art Object Restorers. Clients include Brown University, the cities of Newport and Providence, Yale University, the Newport Mansions and private art collectors. The Newmans restored The Trinity crucifix by Richard Lippold, at Portsmouth Abbey, made of a 22,000-foot gold wire web, receiving the Rhody Award for Historic Preservation, and the Honor Award for Historic Preservation from the American Institute of Architects.