Jillian Goldberg

Jillian is a contemporary abstract artist who enjoys several media including acrylics, collage and book making. As a retired art educator, she continues to learn and explore new media and techniques.  She has been exhibiting in local and international juried shows since 2010. In 2019 she created a three woman show for the Greenville Museum of Art, NC,  which ran for three months. The Museum aquired one of her works. In 2024 she was awarded a five week art residency in Provence, France. She has created instructional DVDs for Jerrys Artarama and in 2024 she was a guest instructor on the North Carolina Museum of Art Youtube channel. In addition she teaches in person workshops at the Museum and her work is available in the Museum gift store. Jillian was a member of a critique group in Raleigh under the late Benjamin Williams, the first curator of the NC Museum of Art. She wrote the only biography of his long and influential life which was published in 2014 and is available on Amazon, "Benjamin Forrest Williams, a short biographical essay." Jillian retired in 2006 from a long career in private art education during which she owned and operated seven art schools for children in the Charlotte and Raleigh region as well as founding a residential summer camp program at Queens University in Charlotte.

I believe in the power of authentic art to lift the human spirit. I believe that despite the changes in society through the ages, from the early cave artists of prehistoric times to the experimental installation artists of today, that the art spirit is within us and that people will respond to that wherever they find it. There is a truth in beauty, which is always recognizable, even if society does nto recognize it immediately. I continue to make art which is authentic to me, and I hope that my work brings joy and peace to those that view it.