Edgar Howard

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.

Crew

Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest

Producer, Director

Brice Marden

Director

Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion

Director

Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects

Producer

James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime

Director, Producer

Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater

Producer

Duane Michals (1939-1997)

Director

Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective

Director

Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution

Producer

John Richardson: The Art of Picasso 1927 - 1973

Director

Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision

Producer, Director

On The Wings of Brancusi

Director, Producer

Frank Stella: Black Aluminum Copper

Director

The Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech

Director

Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting

Director

Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art

Director

Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments

Director

Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the Woods

Producer

Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings

Director

James Rosenquist Up Close

Director

Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals

Producer

Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower

Producer

Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line

Producer

Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San Francisco

Producer

Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building

Producer

Vladimir Kagan: A Life of Design

Director, Producer