Sculptors Guild celebrates its 80th year (1937 – 2017) as one of the oldest artist run nonprofit organizations in NY.

“Each sculpture embodies a different vision of the world, of the past, present, and future. Some of the sculptures are whimsical: others touch on the tragic. The sculptors present a span of human emotions as wide as the range of their materials, shaped by the mind as much as by the hand. “

…”this exhibition of works by members of the Sculptors Guild at Westbeth… should serve as a healthy reminder of the importance of the relationship between independence and community. Neither can exist without the other, which is something we should never lose sight of. “ John Yau, curator

Nyame Adom, 36 inches x 24 inches x 24 inches, steel, 1991

Janet will be participating in i found god in myself: the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls….

“The issues surrounding love, sexuality, gender equality, racial identity, and, ultimately, self-love explored by Ntozake Shange’s Work on Broadway 40 years ago remain relevant today.” Souleo, Curator

Janet participated in ArtSlope at two locations. Art Slope was a nine-day free, multi-arts festival in Park Slope, Brooklyn. With an incredibly rich trove of artists, arts organizations, and venues to draw on, Art Slope brought together artworks from across all disciplines and celebrate New York’s diverse creative community.

Have We Met? ||| Gestural steel sculptures inspired by Malian sculpture and a video with sound presents aspects of daily life in Karenguimbe, village in northern Mali. Presenting images that are small, personal and human, Janet’s aim is to offer a realistic image of Africa that is nuanced and positive, countering persistent negative stereotypes.

Janet was featured on State of the Arts NYC, the weekly radio show hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain, long-time Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF).

Janet Goldner is a sculptor whose work crosses many cultures, focusing on the “beauty and genius of each as well as what we have in common.” She has been involved with African cultures since her undergraduate days at Antioch College, traveling first to Ghana and, years later, to Zimbabwe and South Africa. Goldner’s longest and deepest association has been with Mali where she has spent several months every year since the mid-1990’s.  She has mentored women artists and helped to create employment for rural women through textile projects. She is also involved in an ongoing collaboration with contemporary artists.  Her annual visits to Mali fuel much of her work.  Click here for the rest of the post >>>

Fences & Neighbors, Installation (Photographs, Text, Video, Sound, Barbed Wire), 2016. A “powerful…show… by…Janet Goldner on immigration.” Holland Cotter, The New York Times, April 21, 2016. The full video can be seen in the video section.

“powerful…show… by…Janet Goldner on immigration.” Holland Cotter, NEW YORK TIMES, April 21, 2016….. & featured in NYArts . The Sculptors Guild presents Fences & Neighbors, Janet Goldner’s mixed media installation inspired by her research trip to Arizona in 2014. A woven barbed wire fence divides the gallery. On the far side is a projected video of migrants’ stories that viewers can see through the fence. Photographs and texts about the migrants’ treacherous journey are layered on both sides of the space.

As the fever pitch around migration mounted in 2014, Goldner wanted to go see for herself. Working with the Tucson Arts Brigade and the US Department of Arts and Culture, she spent a week on and around the border. The fence to the sky separating Nogales, Arizona from Nogales, Sonora, made of surplus military steel from the runways in Iraq, was particularly impressive and disturbing.

Take the ferry from lower Manhattan or Brooklyn.  For Governors Island info & ferry schedule, visit govisland.com

The Sculptors Guild presents American Twist.

The Point of Water is a wall installation composed of fabricated and found steel elements. In Bamana thought (an ethnic group in Mali), besides north, south, east, west, the point of water is the fifth cardinal point. Water is a directional indication as in I live two blocks from the river. Cities and towns are located near water, essential for life. The circles symbolize drops of rain. Ellipses indicate bodies of water. This installation highlights the intersection of ecology and culture paying homage to the social importance of water.

Take the ferry from lower Manhattan or Brooklyn.  For Governors Island info & ferry schedule, visit govisland.com

Lunch & daily meeting during the Kawral project, Mopti, Mali 2014

Open Engagement is an international conference and platform to support socially engaged art. The conference highlights the work of transdisciplinary artists, activists, students, scholars, community members, and organizations. This year’s theme is POWER.

Allies or Aliens? Collaborating Across Cultures

Laura Anderson Barbata,  Janet Goldner, Melissa Potter, Miriam Schaer

A 4-person panel will examine issues of power and privilege in socially engaged collaborations involving artists from dramatically different communities. They will describe cross-cultural projects in Mali, Venezuela, the Republic of Georgia, and the repatriation from Norway of a 19th-century Mexican woman’s remains. The panelists, who all have long commitments to their adopted communities, will discuss the tensions between artists from developed and developing countries, the sustainability of projects beyond their initial implementation, and the pros and cons of grant- and self-funded projects.

You can get more information about the conference here

Janet was pleased to participate in a panel discussion in conjunction with Bronx:Africa .

Artists include Laylah Barrayn (Senegal), Janet Goldner (Mali) and Howard T. Cash (West Africa). Osaretin Ugiagbe (Nigeria). Moderated by Atim Annette Oton, curator of public programming.

Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
450 Grand Concourse
Bronx NY 10451

Tel. 718-518-6728
http://www.bronxarts.org/lag.asp

Interesting Times-detail: The global breadth of the crisis

West Harlem Art Fund & Arttable
ALL WOMEN’S panel about Diversity

The West Harlem Art Fund in partnership with Iconic Linx is presenting FUSION NY in Harlem. FUSION NY is a thematic event series comprised of art exhibitions, panels, a jazz concert, and tours during Armory Week 2016.
Moderator: Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director & Chief Curator, West Harlem Art Fund

Panelists:
Nadeesha Godamunne, Fashion Illustrator, Janet Goldner, Artist, Interculturalist, Leila Heller, Leila Heller Gallery, Danielle McConnell, Sr. Publisher, ArtForum

Red Rooster Restaurant, 310 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10027, (212) 792-9001

BRONX:AFRICA is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the art and influence of African cultures that transform our city and impacts the arts as nationals mix and infuse. BRONX:AFRICA celebrates this vital presence as it strengthens and connects the many peoples of African descent, the diaspora, mixed heritage and migration-dispersion-all of whom call the Bronx their home.

Artists: Seyi Adebanjo, Olaniyi Akindiya, Kenneth Anderson, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Howard Cash, Elvira Calyton, Nicky Enright, Ray Felix, Janet Goldner, Ijeoma Iheanacho, Imo Imeh, Hakim Innis, Natasha Johnson, Ahmed Tijay Mohammed, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Ibou Ndoye, Eric Orr, Thurston Randall, Ibrahima Thiam, Misra Walker, Tammy Wofsey

Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
450 Grand Concourse
Bronx NY 10451

Tel. 718-518-6728

Over 125 BRIC Registry artists were featured in OPEN (C)ALL: Up for Debate exhibition.
The show presents work responding to current social/political issues or embodying aspirations for the future, given the upcoming Presidential elections.

Gallery at BRIC House

647 Fulton Street (Enter on Rockwell Place)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tel: 718.683.5600

http://bricartsmedia.org/events/contemporary-art/open-c-all-up-for-debate