Linda Adele Goodine’s training includes a Master of Fine Arts (1984) from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida where she studied as a teaching fellow in Photography with Robert Fichter, Dance with Nancy Fichter, and Installation/Performance with Jimmy Roach; a Master of Science in Communication Arts (1981) from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York in Video and Non-Verbal Communication Theories; and a Bachelor of Art (1980) from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York where she studied with photographer Roger Mertin, receiving an Interdepartmental Degree in Economics, Fine Arts, and English Literature.
During her studies at the University of Rochester, she researched the Farm Security Administration’s collection at the George Eastman International Museum under the direction of Robert Doherty. Directly following graduate school she supported herself as a studio artist and was represented in New Orleans through the Tilden-Foley Gallery and later the Res Nova Gallery. She concurrently taught sculpture at The Delgado School, before relocating to the Midwest to accept a position at the Herron School of Art, where she was awarded the Chancellor’s Professor of Art. Goodine recently retired from East Carolina School of Art as the Distinguished Belk Professor Emeritus.
Goodine’s work has been presented at art fairs in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles under the representation of Lee Marks Fine Art. She purposely left the commercial gallery world of her early career to devote herself to teaching critical thinking to the next generations of artist-citizens. As an educator, her pedagogy is informed by the idea that art education can greatly enhance individuals and world cultures through the development of self-worth, self-sufficiency, empowerment, and creativity. Her mentorship spans thirty years.
Major external grants include the Florida State Art Council Individual Artist Grant (1985), New Forms Florida Grant collaboration with Chuck Badland (1990), inaugural recipient of an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship (1992), The Southern Federation for the Arts Fellowship NEA (1991), Efroymson Fellowship/Central Indiana Community Foundation (2005), Indianapolis Arts Council Individual Grant (2002, 2007), the Indiana Arts Commission Creative Renewal Grant (2003, 2014), and the NEA Interarts Program/Rockefeller Foundation. She was twice nominated for a Tiffany Award. In 2019, Ms. Goodine completed a Nehru-Fulbright project in India titled The Blue Jackal Under the Tree, which incorporates sound, video, and photography.
