Biography
Susan J. Goldman, artist, master printmaker, curator and filmmaker, is Founding Director of Printmaking Legacy Project ®, (PLP®) a non-profit based dedicated to the documentation, preservation and conservation of printmaking practice and history.
She is curator for Forward Press: 21stAmerican Printmaking, PLP®’s premier 2019 major national print exhibition for the greater Washington DC community, at the American University Museum, Katzen Center for the Arts.
Goldman is also Founding Director of Lily Press®, which began as a private studio in 2000. Her first collaborative projects included Elizabeth Catlett, and most recently for Sam Gilliam, Sylvia Snowden, Keiko Hara.
Goldman received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana University-Bloomington in 1981, and a Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University-Tempe, in 1984.
After moving to Washington in 1990, Goldman taught printmaking at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, MICA, Georgetown University, and was Master Printer/Program Director at Pyramid Atlantic.
From 2000-2012 was Adjunct Professor/Master Printer for Navigation Press at George Mason University-Fairfax.
Goldman received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant 2011-12, as producer and director of Midwest Matrix ®, an hour-long groundbreaking documentary videotape DVD on the fine art printmaking tradition of the American Midwest.
Goldman sustains a full-time vibrant studio practice producing and exhibiting her own work nationally and internationally. Her work is in private and public collections worldwide