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Contact: arlene@arlenegoldbard.com

Beginning in January 1978, I was a founding partner of Adams & Goldbard, an organizational and cultural development consulting firm. Since January 2002, I have been an independent writer and consultant. I have worked with a wide variety of public and private agencies, most of them involved in cultural policy, artistic production and distribution, and cultural development planning and evaluation. My consulting work integrates research, writing and editorial services, planning, program development, group dynamics, organizational restructuring, and cooperative problem-solving.

This c.v. has four sections:
(1) a partial list of consultations
(2) seminars, speeches and workshops
(3) publications
(4) additional background information

Consultations

Independent Media and Public Broadcasting Groups and Projects

  • Global Kids, New York, NY. September 2003-Present.
  • Center for Rural Strategies, Whitesburg, KY. January 2002-January 2004.
  • Asian Cinevision, New York, NY. November 2001-November 2002.
  • New Day Films, Berkeley, CA, NY, NY and Ho-ho-kus, NJ. April 1984-November 2002.
  • Independent Television Service, St. Paul, MN and San Francisco, CA. January-October 1994, May 1996-March 1997, July 1998-November 2001.
  • Web Lab, New York, NY. August 1999-November 2001.
  • Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund, Chicago, IL. September 1999-March 2000.
  • Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY. September 1980, October 1983, October 1997-January 1999.
  • Open Society Institute, New York, NY. August 1998-November 1998.
  • The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY. April 1996-December 1997.
  • Program for Art on Film, Columbia University and Pratt Institute, New York, NY. February 1989-May 1991, January 1996-October 1996.
  • Paul Robeson Fund for Film and Video, New York. March-June 1991 and September 1994.
  • The American Documentary (P.O.V.), New York, NY. November-December 1987, June 1991-1993 and May-October 1994.
  • National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Oakland, CA. September 1990-July 1991.
  • Muriel Rukeyser Center for Media and the Arts, Berkeley, CA. May 1990-Spring 1991.
  • Independent Media Distributors Alliance, Glen Cove, NY. January-March 1990.
  • Public Broadcasting Service and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Washington, DC, and Hilton Head, SC. December 1989-March 1990.
  • Independent Feature Project, New York, NY. December 1989-March 1990.
  • National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA), San Francisco, CA. July-December 1989.
  • Tony Silver Films, New York, NY. April 1988-November 1989.
  • The Media Alliance, New York, NY. April-August 1988.
  • Lourdes Portillo/Xochil Films, San Francisco, CA. March 1988-September 1988.
  • National Black Programming Consortium, Columbus, OH. July-August 1987.
  • Tony Buba Films, Braddock, PA. November 1986-August 1987.
  • International Film Seminars (Flaherty Seminar), New York, NY. May-June 1987.
  • Documentary Resource Center, State College, PA. January 1987.
  • Media Network, New York, NY. December 1986-January 1987 and June 1987.
  • Ferrero Films, San Francisco, CA. April 1986.
  • San Francisco Cinematheque, September-November 1984.
  • KQED-TV, San Francisco, CA. March-April 1979.

Community Cultural Development and Planning Projects

  • Seattle Parks and Recreation Department, Seattle, WA. May 2000-January 2001.
  • Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY. September 1980, October 1983, October 1997-January 1999.
  • East Tennessee Foundation, Knoxville, TN. January 1997-August 1997.
  • Mendocino People’s Portrait, Ukiah, CA. September 1992-December 1993.
  • Jubilee Arts, West Bromwich, West Midlands, UK. April 1987, January 1990-November 1993.
  • Kansas Arts Commission, Topeka, KS and Statewide. July 1988-October 1989.
  • Council for the Arts in Westchester, White Plains, NY. July 1988-June 1989.
  • Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, Sacramento, CA. January-March 1987.
  • McCormick Arts Council at the Keturah, McCormick, SC. September 1986.
  • Cultural Partnerships, Ltd., London, England. July 1986.
  • South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC. September 1984-April 1986.
  • Mendocino County Arts Coalition, Willits, CA. January-March 1986.
  • South Dakota Arts Council, Sioux Falls and other towns. April-July 1982.
  • Rural Arts Services, Northern California. March-November 1979, October 1981.
  • San Francisco Neighborhood Arts Consortium, San Francisco, CA. September 1981.
  • Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL. June 1981.
  • Colquitt County Cultural Center, Moultrie, GA. April-June 1981.
  • Community Arts, San Diego, CA. May-August 1979.
  • Ukiah Cultural Arts Commission, Ukiah, CA. April-May 1978.

Cultural Policy and Issue-Oriented Organizations

  • Water The Roots, Chicago, IL, Planning for a national coalition supporting traditional artists. June-October 2008-present.
  • The Curriculum Project, National research into education for community cultural development. October 2007-present.
  • National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, Washington, DC, and Seattle, WA. November 1990-January 1991 and November 1994-April 1995.
  • Mendocino County Board of Supervisors, Ukiah, CA, February-June 1992.
  • Institute for Media Analysis, New York, NY. March 1988-November 1988.
  • Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY. May 1987.
  • Public Advocates, San Francisco, CA. August 1985-August 1986.
  • Neighborhood Arts Programs National Organizing Committee (NAPNOC), renamed The Alliance for Cultural Democracy, Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD, May 1979-May 1983, and San Francisco, CA, June-August 1978.
  • California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA. November-December 1978.

Other Arts and Cultural Organizations

  • Thousand Kites Project, Roadside Theater and Holler to the Hood, Whitesburg, KY. October 2006-present.
  • Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. October 2004-June 2005.
  • Richmond Arts and Cultural Commission, Richmond, CA. April-June 2005.
  • Arizona State University, Herberger College of Arts, Tempe, AZ. August 2004-March 2005.
  • The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY. June 1998-January 2003.
  • Arts International, New York, NY. April-June 1999.
  • The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. December 1987-June 1988, May-July 1990, and September 1990-March 1996.
  • The American Festival Project, Whitesburg, KY. August 1994 to February 1995.
  • ExhibitsUSA, Kansas City, MO. January-March 1993.
  • Harvestworks, New York, NY. October 1988-March 1989.
  • CenterArts, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA. March-April 1988.
  • Artsreach, Artists-in-Prisons Program, Los Angeles, CA. December 1987-January 1988.
  • Jerri Allyn (performance artist), New York, NY. June 1986.
  • Ukiah Players Theatre, Ukiah, CA. February-October 1985, November 1986, November 1987, fall/winter 1989-90.
  • People’s Theater Coalition, San Francisco, CA. October 1984-January 1985.
  • Community Art Resource, San Francisco, CA. August-December 1984.
  • Community Murals Magazine, Berkeley, CA. August-December 1984.
  • Lilith, San Francisco, CA. August-December 1984.
  • UP Productions, San Francisco, CA. August-December 1984.
  • Theater Artaud, San Francisco. May-June 1984.
  • Pickle Family Circus, San Francisco. June 1983-March,1984.
  • United Mime Workers, Champaign, IL. October-November 1983.
  • At the Foot of the Mountain, Minneapolis, MN. April 1982-June 1983.
  • Chicago Mural Group, Chicago, IL. October-November 1981.

Other Organizational Assessment and Planning

  • ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, Philadelphia, PA. April-September 2000.
  • C.G. Jung Educational Center of Houston, TX. December 1994-November 1995.
  • CommunityWorks Coalition, Mendocino County Division of Alcohol and Other Drug Programs, Ukiah, CA. December 1991-May 1992.
  • Family Practice Residency Program, U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine, Santa Rosa, CA. January-March 1992.
  • National Lawyers Guild, New York, NY. January 1989.
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Seminars, Speeches And Workshops

  • Leading With Your Best Self, National Conference for Community Arts Education, Los Angeles, CA, November 2007.
  • Building Peaceful Communities Through The Arts, Shanti Foundation, Chicago, IL, October 2007.
  • The Ethics of Community Arts Practice, Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, PA, October 2007.
  • The Ethics of Community Arts Practice, Creative Exchange, London, England, July 2007.
  • Community Cultural Development: Justice Permeated By Love, Interferencia, Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.
  • Social Inclusion and the Culture of Participation in Sant Boi, Cal Ninyo, Sant Boi, Spain, July 2007.
  • Converging Worlds: Art, Politics and Community, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, March 2007.
  • Pulling The Wool From Our Eyes, Western Pennsylvania Arts in Education Partnership Conference for Resident Artists, Cambridge Springs, PA, May 2007.
  • The Ethics of Community Arts Practice, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, March 2007.
  • Refreshing Your Vision, Samuel Fleisher Institute, Philadelphia, PA, March 2007.
  • Culture and Community Development, Delaware Valley Grantmakers, Philadelphia, PA, March 2007.
  • The World’s Largest Organism, Lord Leebrick Theater, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, February 2007.
  • The Culture of Fear, Democratic Vistas Forum, Center for Arts Policy, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, November 2006.
  • Community Arts as Spiritual Practice, keynote, National Guild of Schools of the Arts Conference for Community Arts Education, Phoenix, AZ, November 2006.
  • Story Revolution Conference, Ukiah Players Theatre, Ukiah, CA, November 2004.
  • Political Participation and Artistic Citizenship, New York University Tisch School of Arts, New York, NY, October 2004.
  • Experimental Performance Institute, New College of California, San Francisco, October 2003.
  • Community Lecture Series, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, April 2003.
  • Vision Unlimited Community Theatre Conference, Hong Kong, February 2003.
  • Cultural Policy Lecture Series, University of Texas, Austin, TX, January 2003.
  • Cooper Union, New York, NY. November 2001.
  • Community, Culture and Globalization Conference, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, May 2001.
  • Cultural Policy in the West, Western States Arts Foundation, Aspen, CO. September 1999.
  • Content ‘97, National Educational Media Network, Oakland, CA. May 1997.
  • The Status and Future of Public Arts Funding, Mid-America Arts Alliance, St. Louis, MO. December 1995.
  • Missouri Arts Council and Missouri Alliance for Arts Education, Saint Louis, MO. February 1994 and April–August 1996.
  • Converging Streams Colloquium, Institute for Social Ecology, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, June 1996.
  • Plains Presenters, Kansas City, MO. April 1996.
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed conference, University of Nebraska/Omaha. March 1996.
  • Alternate ROOTS, Atlanta, GA, Community Arts Revival, Durham, NC. January 1994.
  • The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY. February and September 1993.
  • South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC. February 1992.
  • Association of Art Museum Directors, New York, NY. Honolulu, HI, January-February 1991 and Fort Worth, TX, February 1992.
  • KZYX, Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, Philo, CA. December 1989-February 1990.
  • California Committee for the Promotion of History, Mendocino County, CA. October 1989.
  • Women’s Caucus for Art, San Francisco, CA. February 1989.
  • New College of California, San Francisco, CA. September 1989 and November 1988.
  • Alliance of New York State Arts Councils, White Plains, NY. April 1988-July 1988.
  • Oregon Advocates for the Arts, Eugene, OR. November 1987.
  • California Confederation of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. October 1987.
  • Dartington College, Totnes, Devon, England. April-May 1987.
  • Jubilee Arts, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. April 1987.
  • The Red Rose, Islington, London, England. April 1987.
  • Southern Arts Association, Newbury, England. April 1987.
  • Alliance for Cultural Democracy, Boston, MA. November 1986, Atlanta, GA. October 1983.
  • Conference on Social Theory, Politics & the Arts, University of CA/San Diego. October 1986.
  • National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Washington, DC., Minneapolis, MN. October 1986.
  • Another Standard ‘86, The Shelton Trust, London. Sheffield, England. July 1986.
  • Illinois State University, Springfield . November 1985.
  • National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, CO. Williamsburg, VA, November 1985.
  • Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. November 1985.
  • Center for Experimental & Interdisciplinary Arts, School of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University. Spring semesters 1984 and 1985.
  • Pro Arts, Oakland, CA. January 1984.
  • Ohio Arts Council, Columbus. Dayton, September 1983.
  • National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, Washington, DC. Philadelphia, June 1983.
  • Franklin Furnace, New York City. June 1983.
  • Western States Arts Foundation, Santa Fe, NM. May 1983.
  • Practicing Cultural Democracy, NAPNOC, Baltimore, MD. University of Nebraska at Omaha, October 1983.
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. September 1982.
  • Social & Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), Venice, CA. June 1982.
  • Institute for Social & Policy Studies, Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT. February 1982.
  • Political Art Documentation/Distribution, New York City. February 1982.
  • Citizen Heritage Center, Minneapolis, MN. Macalaster College, Saint Paul, January 1982.
  • University of Illinois, Chicago Circle . October 1981.
  • Media Alliance and People’s Theater Coalition, San Francisco, CA. September 1981.
  • Community Art Resource, San Francisco, CA. September 1981.
  • The Gathering, Theaterwork, St. Peter, MN. August 1981.
  • Alternate ROOTS, Camp Ozone, TN. August 1981.
  • Center for Responsive Governance, Washington, DC. February 1981.
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Publications

  • The Curriculum Project Report: Culture and Community Development in Higher Education, 2008. Download at the project site.
  • “Looking Before You Leap: Community Arts in Context,” in Art/Vision/Voice: Cultural Conversations in Community, Baltimore: Maryland Institute College of Art, 2005.
  • “Culture Wars, Round Two,” In Motion Magazine, May 2005.
  • “Examining the Challenge of Cultural Diversity, CAN Reading Room, April 2005,
  • “Trouble in Oz: Australia’s Community Cultural Development Programs Threatened, CAN Reading Room, March 2005.
  • “When Will We Ever Learn?” In Motion Magazine, February 2005.
  • “The Story Revolution: How Telling Our Stories Transforms the World, CAN Reading Room, January 2005.
  • “Don’t Do It! Organizational Suicide Prevention for Progressives,” CAN Reading Room, September 2004.
  • Clarity, New York: iUniverse, May 2004.
  • “When Art Worlds Collide” in Alternative Art New York, 1965-1985, University of Minnesota Press, January 2003.
  • “Community, Culture and Globalization,” Community, Culture and Globalization,
    New York, NY: The Rockefeller Foundation, April 2002.
  • “Memory, Money, and Persistence: Theater of Social Change in Context,” Theater (New Haven), Volume 31, Number 3 (Spring 2002).
  • Transforming Dialogue: Web Lab’s Explorations at the Frontiers of Online Community, New York, NY: Web Lab, July 2000.
  • “Creative Risk,” Living Text: The Journal of Contemporary Midrash, Number 8, Winter 2000.
  • Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, New York, NY: The Rockefeller Foundation, May 2000.
  • “Pitfalls of Planning,” Lessons Learned Planning Toolsite (). 1998.
  • “Let Them Eat Pie: Philanthropy à la Mode,” Tikkun (Oakland, CA), (July/August 1996), Volume 11, Number 4.
  • “A Bright New Day: Why a 25-year-old Distribution Co-op Could Be the Wave of the Future,” The Independent (New York), May 1996.
  • “Calling the Question of Critical Stance,” Sniper’s Nest. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, 1996.
  • “Race and Redemption: Notes for a National Conversation,” High Performance (Santa Monica, CA), Number 66 (Summer 1994), Volume 17, Number 2.
  • “Postscript to the Past,” High Performance (Santa Monica, CA), Number 64 (Winter 1993), Volume 16, Number 4.
  • “Learning to Read the World,” Exposure (Boulder, CO) Volume 28, Number 1/2, 1991.
  • The Bottom Line: Funding for Media Arts Organizations. San Francisco: National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, 1991.
  • Crossroads: Reflections on the Politics of Culture. Talmage, CA: DNA Press, 1990.
  • “Democracy and Competence,” Reimaging America: The Arts of Social Change, Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1990.
  • “Faith, Reason and the Art of the Future,” High Performance (Santa Monica, CA), Number 48 (Winter 1989), Vol. 12, No. 4.
  • “Social Studies: Cultural Policy and Media Literacy,” The Independent (New York), August/September 1989.
  • “Artists’ Organizations in the 1980s” Artpaper (Minneapolis), Volume 9, Number 2, 1989.
  • Kansas Rural Arts Organizer. Topeka: Kansas Arts Commission, 1989.
  • “Cultural Democracy: A New Cultural Policy for the United States,” Winning America: Ideas and Leadership for the 1990s, Boston: South End Press, 1988.
  • “Breaking down the cultural barricades,” In These Times (Chicago), February 10-16, 1988.
  • “Tough Times,” Heresies (New York), Volume 6, Number 2, 1987.
  • “The Challenge of Cultural Action” and “Cultural Democracy,” Cultural Correspondence (New York), Number 5, 1986.
  • “Community, Art and The State,” Community Murals Magazine (Berkeley, CA), Fall 1986.
  • “Falling into the enemy’s arms,” In These Times (Chicago), August 20-September 2, 1986.
  • The Small Town Arts Organizer. Columbia: South Carolina Arts Commission, 1986.
  • “From the Ground Up: Cultural Democracy as a National Movement,” Upfront (NYC), Winter 1984.
  • “The Right to Culture,” Journal of Arts Management & Law (Washington, DC), Spring, 1983.
  • “The Challenge of Cultural Action,” Cultural Correspondence (New York), Winter, 1983. Also published in Theaterwork (St. Peter, MN), March/April, 1982.
  • “Art Where You Are,” The Progressive (Madison, WI), June 1982.
  • “South of the Border: Cultural Politics in the U.S.,” FUSE (Toronto), May/June, 1982.
  • “Grassroots Vanguard,” Art in America (New York), April, 1982.
  • “A Roundtable: Culture and Democracy,” The New York Times (New York), April 25, 1982.
  • “Freedom and Diversity: U.S. History and the Challenge of Cultural Democracy,” Theaterwork, March/April, 1982.
  • “Neighborhood Arts Under Reagan,” Journal of Community Action (Washington, DC), January/February, 1982.
  • “Task Force’s Work Now Is Done” and “I Don’t Know Much About Culture, But…,” In These Times (Chicago, IL), September 30-October 6, 1981.
  • “Cultural Democracy vs. the Democratization of High Culture,” Social Policy (New York), May/June, 1981.
  • “The Heritage Foundation and Reagan’s Policies,” Theaterwork, March/April, 1981.
  • Cultural Democracy (ISBN 0730-9503): Adams and Goldbard established this periodical in June 1981, and served as co-editors through issue 27 (January/February 1983).
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Summary Of Previous Experience

From 1976-77, I was Director of Cultural News Service in Sacramento. CA. From 1965-1978, I worked as a professional artist — painter, illustrator, and graphic designer — and as an arts organizer in the San Francisco Bay Area: In 1975-76, I was Coordinator of the San Francisco Artworkers’ Coalition; in 1975, I chaired the statewide California Visual Artists’ Alliance. From 1974-76, I was co-founder, art director and writer for the Arts Biweekly. In 1974, I was founder and chair of Artists in Print, and also a founding Board member of Bay Area Lawyers for the Arts.

From 1971-73, I worked as a designer and printer for the San Francisco Art Commission’s Neighborhood Arts Program. In 1970-71, I was reporter and art director for the Willamette Bridge, a weekly community newspaper in Portland, OR. From 1966-70, I was a draft counselor for San Francisco Draft Help and other Bay Area agencies.

References And Additional Information Upon Request