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BLACK LIVES MATTER is a group exhibition asking the question, What does #blacklivesmatter mean to you?
This mixed-media exhibition, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, was curated by MCLA professors Dr. Frances Jones-Sneed and Melanie Mowinski.
#BlackLivesMatter first came to light in 2012 when a young, unarmed, black male, Trayvon Martin, was shot and killed. Martin’s death and the acquittal of his accused killer sparked protests and the Black Lives Matter movement. The movement – started by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi – challenges the anti-black racism that plagues society today, Mowinski said.
Artists were asked to submit works of all mediums to answer the question, “What does #BlackLivesMatter mean to you?” They were encouraged to explore from the literal to the conceptual underpinnings of Black Lives Matter and to examine the impact of state and national violence on black lives, Mowinski said.
The exhibit strives to encourage and incite conversation about race relations, the importance of black lives, and proposals for what we each must do to make a difference in our society regardless of our gender, race or place in society.
The exhibit includes artworks from 30 artists from 17 states at varying stages in their careers: from emerging to established artists. The mediums of the artworks include traditional art forms like drawing, painting and sculpture, but also time-based mediums like video and artist books as well as participatory pieces.
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About Place Journal is a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society.
Janet is pleased to be included in The Future Imagined Differently issue of About Place Journal, edited by Patricia Spears Jones. Click here for About Place Journal
“In archeology, we dig beneath the surface, an activity that is both literal and figurative. “The dig” also becomes the site of an excavation into the layers of history beneath us, our history. The deeper we dig, the more we uncover and learn about who we were and who we are and perhaps where we would like to go. The past is always with us, in more than memory, we walk over it as well as confront it. The photographs of Janet Goldner skate the surface with objects that truly give us a passage into the past.”
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Janet’s photograph was chosen as a Notable Entry by the Theo Westenberger Estate and is featured on their Facebook page :
Today’s Notable Entry is by Photographer JANET GOLDNER, Entitled “Pottery, Kalabougou, Mali”
Description: “Kalabougou, Mali is a village renowned for its potters and pottery partly because of the quality of the clay found in and around the village.The women potters of Kalabougou are upholders of a long tradition of skill, resilience, humanity and protection of their environment which provides them with their livelihood and identity.”
Theo Westenberger was an extraordinary Artist and photographer. She dedicated her legacy to supporting women artists, animals and the environment.
We are pleased to announce the publication of a catalogue to document the visual artists’ residency which took place in Mali in April, 2014.
KAWRAL was an artistic residency that took place in Mopti in March, 2014. 25 professional artists from throughout Mali worked for three weeks on the themes Reconciliation, Peace and Social Cohesion.
Works produced during the residency were exhibited at the Alliance Franco-Malian in Mopti and toured to the Museum of the Bamako.
The catalogue documents KAWRAL and the works that were exhibited at the Museum of Bamako from April thru September, 2014. It includes profiles of the 25 Malian visual artists who participated in the residency with images of their works as well as essays by the Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard, Minister of Culture N’Diaye Ramatoulaye Diallo, Director of the Alliance Franco-Malienne, Mopti Hamadoun Diarra and the Groupe Bogolan Kasobane with Janet Goldner. The text is in both English and in French.
The residency was organized and directed by Kandioura Coulibaly, Kletigui Dembele, Janet Goldner and Sira Sissoko with financial support from USAID, Office of Transition Initiative (OTI).
Fire & Water, Steel, Video, Sound, 10 feet x 10 feet, 2014 ||| This mixed media wall installation combines welded steel, video and sound. It pays homage to the potters and blacksmiths in Mail. The videos are documentary. The sculptural elements are abstract. Since they are inspired by the same source, they compliment and enlarge each other.
Janet participated in this neighborhood wide Open Studio Event. ||| Janet Goldner, Fire & Water, welded steel & video, 2014
The 2nd Annual Exhibition celebrating the connections between the peoples of Africa and the Brooklyn public. The massive collection of Eric Edwards, one of the largest in the United States, is the center-piece of this historical undertaking. Carefully assembled over the last 44 years this Brooklynite has one of the finest and foremost collections of African art and artifacts in the country.
11 contemporary artists will present their new works which were inspired by the Eric Edwards collection.
Otto Neals, Vumelani Sibeko, James Hoston, Jamillah Jennings, Roger Beckles, Milton Edwards, Gerald Jones, Janet Goldner, Howard Cash, Dr. Izell Glover, Sol Sax
Janet went to Tucson on September 13th for a week. Working with Tucson Arts Brigade and US Dept. of Arts & Culture, we looked at the impact of the immigration crisis around Tucson & at the border.
US Dept. of Arts & Culture REPORT-TO THE BORDER, WITH THE TUCSON FIELD OFFICE
“Building offers a look at how artists grapple with the structure of structures. The word “building” is inherently both the action of creating and the object of its creation. We begin with nothing, design by pushing and pulling, adding and subtracting, while amassing the elements to create the structure until we have an object that literally has to stand. Janet Goldner welds as she builds, the steel affirms strength yet the deliberate searing through the metal imbues them with a sense of fragility.”
i found god in myself is a multimedia and multigallery exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.
Since its debut performance in 1974 just outside Berkeley, California, at a bar named the Bacchanal, Shange’s work has captivated, provoked, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the world. On display at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are 20 specially commissioned pieces in honor of the individual poems and archival material that traces the journey of Shange’s text from that bar in California to its critically acclaimed run on Broadway.
The multigallery exhibition extends beyond the walls of the Schomburg to include additional noncommissioned artworks on display at two satellite locations, The Sol Studio and La Maison d’Art. These multimedia works portray women at the life stages of youth, adulthood, and late adulthood. Thereby each work gives tangible life-form to Shange’s words and women’s contemporary experiences with issues such as class, body image, gender identity, immigration, politics, war, love, sexuality, racial identity, sisterhood, and ultimately self-love.
i found god in myself is curated and organized by Souleo of Souleo Enterprises, LLC.
Twelve artists from around the nation explore the theme “Culture Citizens: The Immigrant and the Stranger”
Janet is pleased to show her sculpture Wealth in Africa
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Wealth in Africa is a mixed media sculpture in the form of a large necklace. Inspired by Janet’s long connection to the Continent, Wealth in Africa highlights the richness of Africa– the people and their culture(s). The title is meant to counter the relentless attention to poverty in Africa and to refocus attention on the richness, beauty and genius found there. In this work Janet uses photographs, video and sound she recorded in Kalabougou to pay homage to the renowned women potters, the upholders of a long tradition of skill, resilience and humanity. She resided and conducted research in Kalabougou during her Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in 1994-5.
Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography is the first museum exhibition to explore how contemporary jewelry artists transform and add new meaning to the pervasive images of this digital age. Drawing inspiration from historic daguerreotypes to manipulated digital images, international jewelry artists explore changing views of beauty and the human body; examine social, political, and cultural issues; probe perceptions of memory and desire; and question the broader relation of jewelry to society and personal identity, issues central to the contemporary experience.