Background
Conant, Howard Somers was born on May 5, 1921 in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Rufus P. and Edith B. (Somers) Conant.
Conant, Howard Somers was born on May 5, 1921 in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Rufus P. and Edith B. (Somers) Conant.
Student, Art Students League of New York, 1945. Bachelor of Science, University Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1946. Master of Science, University Wisconsin-Madison, 1947.
Doctor of Education, University Buffalo, 1950.
Instructor art, assistant head housefellow, University of Wisconsin, 1946-1947;
assistant professor art, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1947-1950;
professor art, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1950-1955;
department chairman art and art education also chairman art collection, New York University, 1955-1976;
head department art, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1976-1986;
professor art, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1986-1987;
professional artist,, since 1987. Art education consultant NBC-television, also Girl Scouts American television series, 1958-1960. Fieldreader, also Title III program consultant United States Office of Education.
Adviser New York State Council on Arts, 1962-1963, Connecticut Commision on Arts, 1967-1968. Consultant Ford Foundation, 1973, Children's Theatre Association, 1973, Getty Trust, 1985. Examiner International Baccalaureate Organisation, 1998.
Department State lecturer, India, 1964. Director Waukesha County (Wisconsin) Young Men’s Christian Association Art Program, 1946-1948. President, director Children's Creative Art Foundation, 1959-1960.
Member advisory committee College of Potomac, 1966. Member cultural exchange mission to Mexico, Partners of the American mathematical society, 1988, 90. Lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946.
Member College Art Association, National Art Education Association, International Art Critics Association, Alliance for Arts in Education, National Association Schools Art and Design, American Association of University Professors, National Committee Art Education (council, chairman 1962-1963), Institute Study of Art in Education (board governors 1965-1972, president 1965-1968) Clubs: Torch (New York City) (president 1965-1966).
Married Florence C. Craft, June 18, 1943. Children: Judith Lynne Steinbach, Jeffrey Scott. Married Virginia E. Lusk, June 7, 1999.