Linda Goode Bryant

Linda Goode Bryant
At the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
Born 1949
Alma mater Spelman College
Columbia University
Occupation Documentary filmmaker

Linda Goode Bryant (born 1949 in Columbus, Ohio) is an arts professional, American documentary filmmaker, and activist.

Education

In 1972 Bryant received her Bachelors of Art degree in studio art with a minor in drama at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1980 she received here Master of Business Administration degree in management from Columbia University in New York City.[1]

Career

Before embarking on filmmaking, Bryant began her career as a arts professional having been a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the education department at the Studio Museum in Harlem in the 1970s.[1] After which she opened up a gallery originally located in Midtown Manhattan called Just Above Midtown (JAM) from 1974–1986.

Just Above Midtown

In 1974, Bryant founded Just Above Midtown (JAM), a New York City non-profit interdisciplinary artists’ space that supported new work by emerging visual, video, and film artists, choreographers, musicians, writers, and performance and theater artists. Originally located on West 57th Street, JAM was the first gallery space to exhibit the work of African-American artists and other artists of color in a major gallery district. At JAM’s inception, works by artists of color were primarily exhibited in community centers and cultural institutions in African-American, Native American, Latino and Asian communities. The first exhibition at the gallery, Synthesis: A combination of parts or elements into a complex whole on view from November 19–December 23, 1974, featured work by David Hammons, Camille Billops, Elizabeth Catlett, and Norman Lewis.

In 1977, JAM moved to 178-80 Franklin Street in Tribeca. While it continued to operate as a commercial gallery and exhibition space, Bryant and her team emphasized live events, such as performances, readings, and lectures, at the Franklin Street location.[2] In May 1982, Bryant and Janet Henry published the first issue of Black Currant, a publication that focused on the work of artists affiliated with JAM.

JAM moved to its final location in 1984. At 503 Broadway, it ceased to be a commercial gallery and functioned as studio space. The publication became B Culture, edited by Greg Tate and musician and producer Craig Dennis Street. JAM officially closed in 1986.

Artists who exhibited at JAM include:

Filmmaking

She co-produced and directed, with Laura Poitras, Flag Wars (2003),[3] a cinéma vérité Emmy Award-nominated documentary centered primarily around gentrification, race, and class[4] in Columbus Ohio. She is a 2004 Guggenheim Fellow[5] and Peabody Award winner.[6]

Personal life

Activism

In 2003 Goode Bryant is a Founder and the Executive Director of the Active Citizen Project (ACP), a non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst and laboratory for broad-based public activism using art and new media as tools for social change.[7] Goode Bryant developed Project EATS during the 2008 Global Food Crisis. She was Founder and Director of Just Above Midtown, Inc. (JAM), a New York City non-profit artists space. Good Bryant believes art is as organic as food and life. It is a conversation anyone can enter. It is a place where we all reside. An energy that is always renewable. It is the essence of humanity. It is our promise to care and take care.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Linda Goode Bryant | The HistoryMakers". www.thehistorymakers.org. Retrieved 2018-09-09.
  2. ↑ Rujeko Hockley (April 2017). Morris, Catherine; Hockley, Rujeko, eds. We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85: A Sourcebook. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. p. 136.
  3. ↑ Flagwars pbs.org
  4. ↑ POV (2003-01-23). "Film Description | Flag Wars | POV | PBS". POV | American Documentary Inc. Retrieved 2018-09-09.
  5. ↑ Linda Goode Bryant Archived 2011-06-22 at the Wayback Machine. gf.org
  6. ↑ Peabody Awards Archived 2010-06-10 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ Active Citizen Project
  8. ↑ "About Us — Project EATS". projecteats.org. Retrieved 2018-09-09.
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