| Summary: | Filmmaker and nonprofit chief executive Linda Goode Bryant was born in July 1949 in Columbus, Ohio. She earned her B.A. degree from Spelman College in 1972. Bryant was a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and worked in the education department of The Studio Museum in Harlem. In 1974, she founded Just Above Midtown Gallery, a commercial art gallery that helped launch the careers of David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger, and Houston Conwill. Her 1978 book, Contextures, traced the role of African American artists in the Abstract Expressionist movement. Bryant was the co-director with Laura Poitras of Flag Wars, a documentary film about the gentrification of the Olde Towne East neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. She received a Peabody Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her film work. Through the Active Citizen Project, which she founded in 2003, Bryant directed the social activist programs Open Caucus and Project EATS.
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