A New President in 2021, my recent work is included in the Puffin Cultural Forum’s online exhibition. The exhibition is part of the Puffin Foundation’s project on Election 2020. https://www.puffinculturalforum.org/the-election-2020/ The Right to Vote is a fundamental right guaranteed by the US Constitution to every single American. It is a right that has been hard fought since its …
Exhibition
The USPS Art Project
Gouche, Pastel, Mixed Media on Paper, 8″ x 10″ x 1″ Janet Goldner & Nancy Andell, Friendship Overland, Overseas, Gouache, Pastel, Mixed Media on Paper, 8″ x 10″ x 1″ This collaborative project is to support the United States Postal Service during the COVID-19 crisis that helps artists connect. Artists choose a collaboration partner and each begins an artwork. We sent …
Drive By
Ebola Came to Mali on a Bus, 10 feet x 12 feet x 4 feet, Steel, Gloves, Goggles, 2015 In an effort to “flatten the curve” of fine art installation closures, activist muralist Janet Braun-Reintz and her son comedian Dave Reintz created Drive By Art Gallery by converting the outdoor coming attraction poster boxes into 12 installation boxes featuring images …
You Will Know Me: Migration Stories
Janet participated in You Will Know Me, a group exhibition curated by Tara Sabharwal in response to the 2016 US elections. The exhibition featuring works by artists from all over the globe.
Bogolan Workshop
Each year, the Friends Academy Middle School comes together as a whole community for an Arts Celebration. Goldner taught a four day Bogolan Workshop. The first day included an introduction to bogolan, history, uses, symbols. Students experimented with clay slip from Mali on a small cotton cloth. The second day, students worked on a larger cloth. On the third day, …
DIG
“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 …
Gowanus Open Studio Weekend
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 …
Celebrate Africa- Symbols of Spirits Exhibition
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 …
Building
“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 …
i found god in myself…
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. …