“Bridging diverse cultures, my art celebrates the unique beauty and genius of each as well as what we share. I make steel sculptures and installations that also include photography and video. Research in the form of immersive fieldwork is important to my work. Annual visits to Mali, for more than two decades, provide inspiration. My art traces my enduring exploration of sculptural form, my ongoing relationship with African culture, and my lifelong involvement in social activism.

I engage in long-term collaborations, particularly with Malian artists. We are all, at the same time, researcher and object of research producing dialogue and concrete works of art. Working trans-culturally unites people from different cultures, education, histories. The exchange of perspectives and contexts can highlight global similarities and specific cultural differences as contributors think together, contributing beliefs and strategies from their individual experiences. As the work continues over a long period of time, the result can be an identity that is not exclusively linked to a geographic location or ethnicity but to new cultural and conceptual realms.”  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                         –Janet Goldner