Janet Goldner MA '81 Receives Fulbright Specialist Award

New York artist, Janet Goldner was selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Bamako, Mali at Balla Fasseke Kouyate Conservatory of Arts and Multimedia during the month of May, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Goldner conducted a three week seminar for visual art and multimedia students.  Using a process originated by the renowned feminist art critic, Arlene Raven, students examined the reasons and context of their artistic production in order to deepen their understanding of their work.

Over thirty years as an active artist, Goldner has shown her work in over twenty solo exhibitions, and nearly one hundred group exhibitions throughout the United States, as well as in Lithuania, Germany, Italy, Bosnia, Australia, New Zealand, and Mali. She is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and artist residencies, including a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to Mali in 1994-5 and a grant from the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid.  Her work has been published in many books, journals, magazines, catalogs and news sources.  An artist-scholar, she has curated exhibitions, published articles and catalogs, and lectured at conferences, universities, and community venues.  She has also conducted sculpture workshops and community art projects in both the United States and Mali.

Goldner is one of over 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement.  The Fulbright Specialists Program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post secondary, academic institutions around the world.

The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have taught, studied or conducted research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. Over 285,000 emerging leaders in their professional fields have received Fulbright awards, including individuals who later became heads of government, Nobel Prize winners, and leaders in education, business, journalism, the arts and other fields. 

For further information about the Fulbright Specialists Program, please contact FULSPEC@cies.iie.org or consult www.cies.org.  For further information about Janet Goldner, please contact art@janetgoldner.com or consult www.janetgoldner.com.