The Susan D. Goodman grant
(c) Martin Basher
C/D NY Alum Susan Goodman has taken the JayDay principles to heart! Here's the email I received from her a week or so ago:
I thought you’d like to know that Jay’s influence on my life continues to take on new meaning. From the “if you want to honor Jay’s memory” eulogy at the New York gathering of employees after his death, I took the “you could support a young artist” suggestion (I also took the “give your doorman $100 for no reason” suggestion) and some months later started to collect the art of young artists.Here is the article in the original German. And here is a rather clumsy translation courtesy of Google Translate.Five years later I began to reexamine the meaning of “support a young artist”, thinking that it might mean more than buy, show and share their works. This year I established the Susan D. Goodman grant which in its first year offers a four-month stipend and living/working arrangements in Berlin for a recent Columbia University MFA graduate. Our first recipient, Martin Basher, will go to Berlin in September for four months. I’ve attached a link to an article that was published in Berlin today which mentions Jay and his influence on my collecting. And I pasted the press release about the grant below.
I hope you are well.
All the best
Susan
Susan D. Goodman
Chairman & CEO
Goodman&Company