janet e. dandridge

janet is a 2023 Arts and Humanities Fellow for the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts & Humanities. In November 2020, janet was awarded an inaugural Washington Project for the Arts Wherewithal Research Grant funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation, to explore Perpetual Traumatic Stress Disorder in American Black women. In 2017 and 2018, janet was named Artist Laureate by Institut Français, Paris. janet was a keynote speaker for Population Connection Action Fund’s 2019 Capitol Hill Days in Washington, D.C., supporting their initiative #Fight4HER. Her work has been exhibited at national art institutions including the Abrons Arts Center New York, LA Louver Los Angeles, photoLA Los Angeles, Consortium for Research of Women, DC Arts Center, and National Steinbeck Center. In 2017, during a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, janet formed fluidity, an art-centered educational experience that guides the public in artistic development of collaborative projects that positively æffect social and political change. To participants, janet poses the question, “What are you actively doing to activate space as an Activist; as an Artist; as an Advocate?”

She is the co-host of Re – Flect / Calibrate, the podcast on The Genealogy of Artivism. janet earned her Master of Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and her Bachelor of Science from St. John’s University in New York City. janet has worked as a panelist and consulting artist for artist grants and exhibitions in Washington, DC, Vermont, and Los Angeles. She is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Art for George Mason University instructing students on Artivism practices via New Media in the Creative Arts. She exhibits, performs, and teaches nationally and internationally.

Degrees:

MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
BS, St John’s University, New York City.

Specialist Areas:

• Mother
• Interdisciplinary Artivist
• Arts & Activism Educator and Consultant
• Liberator, Listener, Empathy Sustainer.
• Performance & Installation Art
• Artivism