July 2011: Mr. Howard Bartner, an Associate Professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine was honored at the 2011 Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) annual meeting in Baltimore with the Max Brodel Award for Excellence in Education. This award recognizes and honors a medical illustrator for outstanding educational contributions to the profession of Medical Illustration. Criteria include educational and/or administrative contributions to a graduate program and acting as a mentor to prospective students in Medical Illustration. The recipient should demonstrate a sustained contribution to education by presenting papers and workshops at regional and annual meetings and in print publications.
Before coming to Hopkins, Howard received both a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Elkins Tyler School of Fine Art as well as a Bachelor of Science Degree from Temple University. Howard graduated from the Hopkins Program with a certificate in 1958. In 1969, he fulfilled the additional requirement for the MA degree. After graduating from Hopkins, Howard went on to dedicate his entire professional career to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and devoted over 50 years of teaching excellence at Hopkins.
One cannot speak of Howard’s work without including examples of his beautiful ophthalmological illustrations. The techniques used to create a such a piece such clearly mirror those taught by his teacher at Hopkins, noted ophthalmological illustrator, Annette Burgess. Most of Howard’s artwork is characterized by an accomplished confident loose rendering style. In 1962, following Annette’s retirement from Hopkins, Ranice would give Howard the privilege to join the Hopkins faculty as a part time instructor. It is since then that Howard began teaching Ophthalmological Illustration to every graduate of our program. It is said that: “Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.” We truly believe teachers like Howard continue to inspire others by his example. Most of us would not have blossomed as well had it not been for master gardeners like Howard. So for this we want to thank and congratulate Howard. Click here to read more about Howard in PDF format