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==Career==
==Career==
She co-produced and directed ''[[Flag Wars]]'' (2003),<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/pov/flagwars/ Flagwars] pbs.org</ref> a [[cinéma vérité]] [[Emmy Award]]-nominated documentary. She is a 2004 [[Guggenheim Fellow]]<ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/1953-linda-goode-bryant Linda Goode Bryant] gf.org</ref> and [[Peabody Award]] winner.<ref>[http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1362 Peabody Awards]</ref> She was founding Director of [[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. 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 Americans in the United States|Native American]], [[Latino]] and [[Asian people|Asian]] communities.
She co-produced and directed ''[[Flag Wars]]'' (2003),<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/pov/flagwars/ Flagwars] pbs.org</ref> a [[cinéma vérité]] [[Emmy Award]]-nominated documentary. She is a 2004 [[Guggenheim Fellow]]<ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/1953-linda-goode-bryant Linda Goode Bryant] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622021354/http://www.gf.org/fellows/1953-linda-goode-bryant |date=2011-06-22 }} gf.org</ref> and [[Peabody Award]] winner.<ref>[http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1362 Peabody Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610232804/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1362 |date=2010-06-10 }}</ref> She was founding Director of [[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. 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 Americans in the United States|Native American]], [[Latino]] and [[Asian people|Asian]] communities.


==Personal life==
==Personal life==

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Linda Goode Bryant
At the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
Born1949
Alma materSpelman College
Columbia University
OccupationDocumentary filmmaker

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

Education

Bryant received her B.A. at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia and a master's degree in Business from Columbia University in New York City.

Career

She co-produced and directed Flag Wars (2003),[1] a cinéma vérité Emmy Award-nominated documentary. She is a 2004 Guggenheim Fellow[2] and Peabody Award winner.[3] She was founding Director of 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. 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.

Personal life

Activism

In 2003 Goode Bryant founded 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. She is the Executive Director of Active Citizen Project, (ACP).[4]

References