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“Fuck it. Let’s just do it ourselves.” – Linda Goode Bryant on the creation of Just Above Midtown Gallery (JAM)

When the gallerist Linda Goode Bryant worked as director of education at the Studio Museum in Harlem in the early 1970s, artists gathered in her work space for conversation. Their discussions often came to the same place. The art establishment denied artists of color- Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latine/x- exhibition opportunities. Goode Bryant’s response to this…