Janet Olivia Henry (b. 1947; East Harlem, New York) is an artist and educator who lives and works in Queens, New York. She was educated at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and received a fellowship in education from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In partnership with filmmaker Linda Goode Bryant, Henry designed and produced Black Currant, a magazine that highlighted the experimental work of artists who were showcased by the Just Above Midtown gallery (JAM). She was a member of the Women’s Action Coalition (WAC), a feminist open alliance that sought to address issues of women’s rights through direct action. She participated in WAC’s drum core and currently co-leads a Project EATS drumming group. Her work was included in the important group exhibitions Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (2022); Queens International 2018 at Queens Museum, NY; We Wanted a Revolution, Black Radical Women 1965–85, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY & Contemporary African American Museum, LA (2017); Bad Girls, New Museum, NY (1994); Artists-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (1981); and Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists in the United States at A.I.R. Gallery, NY (1980). Henry is a life-long educator and has worked at the New York State Council on the Arts, the Studio Museum in Harlem’s education department, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, the Lower Eastside Girls Club, Children’s Art Carnival, and the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School.