We are thrilled to congratulate the icon Mildred Howard on being awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship! This special occasion not only marks the centennial of the Guggenheim Fellowship but also celebrates Howard’s decades-long career in conceptual art and her invaluable contributions to social justice, history, and community.

500 Capp Street is proud to have played a key role in the development of Mildred Howard’s recent Guggenheim Fellowship, having supported her proposal and the early shaping of Collaboration with the Muses. Howard’s new public sculpture at 500 Capp Street is part of this visionary multi-year project, made possible through the Open Spaces program of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and presented in collaboration with the Shaping the Legacy initiative of the San Francisco Arts Commission. As a historic artist’s home dedicated to conceptual experimentation and community-rooted practice, 500 Capp Street is honored to contribute meaningfully to this major milestone in Howard’s career and to the broader transformation of public art in the Bay Area.

This latest honor not only acknowledges an extraordinary and influential career in the fine arts—it also signals that there is so much more still to come.