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Biography
Edgar Howard is the Founder and President of Checkerboard Films, a non-profit foundation established in 1979 to document the American arts for archival and educational purposes. He has produced and/or directed over 45 films, beginning with his first profile on painter Brice Marden in 1977.
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Vladimir Kagan: A Life of Design (2022)Producer
Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest (2021)Producer
On The Wings of Brancusi (2018)Producer
Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision (2015)Producer
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line (2013)Producer
James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime (2011)Producer
Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution (2009)Producer
Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater (2008)Producer
Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building (2008)Producer
Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the Woods (2003)Producer
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