Mimi Herbert

Mimi Herbert, painter and sculptor, was born in 1936.^[1]

Biography

Mimi Herbert earned her Bachelor of Science (1954–58) from the Syracuse University, School of Speech and Dramatic Art, Syracuse, New York, with specialization in "Theater". She received a Master of Arts (1958–61), in South Asia Regional Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, specializing in "Indian Art History". Thereafter, she enrolled in the graduate sculpture program at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1962 to 1964; studied drawing with the Spanish drawing master, Benjamin Saul, in San Salvador, El Salvador, from 1976 to 1978; and attained Master of Fine Arts from the American University, Washington D.C. in 1983. She also went to Indonesia for research and field work in West Java from 1990 to 1995 for her book "Voices of the Puppet Masters: The Wayang Golek Theater of Indonesia", later published by the Lontar Foundation, Jakarta, and the University of Hawaii Press in North America in 2002.^[2] Other than living and working in the U.S., and Indonesia, she has traveled to India, Pakistan, Haiti, Brazil, El Salvador, and New Zealand.^[3] In 2006, selections from Mimi Herbert's collection of Wayang Golek puppets were included in the first Cress Gallery of Art academic season exhibition called "Voices" in The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.^[4]

She taught drawing, at the Trinity College in Washington D.C., and at the Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Virginia. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, The American University, Washington D.C., and in the private collections in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Indonesia and El Salvador. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. ^[5]

Awards

• Create Here Career Advancement Make Work Grant from the "Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga", 1999
• Fellowship Department of Fine Arts, American University, Washington D.C., 1982–83
• Departmental Prize for Drawing, Department of Fine Arts, American University, 1982
• First Prize for Sculpture, All India Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, 1963
• Fulbright Traveling Fellowship for study of art in Baroda, India, 1960–61
• Ford Foundation Fellowships for study at the University of Pennsylvania, South

Asia Regional Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1959–60 and 1960–61

• United States Government Grants for Language Study (Hindi), 1959–60 and 1960–61
• Maintenance Grant awarded by the Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania,1958
• Syracuse University Tuition Scholarships
• Banos Scholarship, Syracuse University, 1954–58
• Jewish City Women Maintenance Award for Needy Woman Students, Syracuse, New York, 1955.

Works

• Herbert, Mimi (2002). Voices of the puppet masters : the wayang golek theater of Indonesia. Honolulu & Jakarta: University of Hawai'i Press & Lontar Foundation. ISBN 978-979-8083-38-9. OCLC 49693882. ISBN 979-8083-38-5. ISBN 0-8248-2554-3. ISBN 978-0-8248-2554-6. 
• Bamboo Pen and Wash Drawings
• Unfired Clay Sculptures
• Sculpture
• Charcoal, Ink and Wash
• Sanguine
• The Cows: Drawings, Monotypes, and Monotypes with Pastels
• Pastels
• Pastel over Etchings and Monotypes
• Prints

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