
Mae Howard
Visual Arts Residency
Mae Howard is an artist and organizer calling upon lineages of disabled labor economies rooted in collective exchange and relational dependency. Their practice utilizes endurance to underscore long-form debilitation. Howard's work dwells in leather histories, sadomasochistic protocol, and practice as aesthetic, haptic, and material foils to the medical-carceral industrial complex. They received an MFA and Certificate in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2023. Howard is a 2026 Queer Art Mentorship Fellow, a 2025-2026 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow, and a 2023-2024 Whitney Independent Study Program Fellow. They have taught multiple courses at the University of Pennsylvania and facilitated Disabled Erotics at The School of Making Thinking in 2024 and 2025.