Arlene Goldbard

Essays and Articles

• Read Arlene’s monthly column at Toni Childs’ Web site, Cause: You’re Beautiful.
• “The Long, Hot Summer of Service: Community Artists on The Job,” July, 2009. Read the full text at the Community Arts Network.
• “Arguments for Cultural Democracy and Community Cultural Development,” GIA Reader, Spring 2009. Read the full text at Grantmakers in The Arts.
• “Human Rights and Culture: From Datastan to Storyland” The Spanda Foundation, May 2009. Scroll down to download Spanda News, Vol. III, 1. 2009, “Human Rights & Security.”
• “The New New Deal 2009: Public Service Jobs for Artists?” December, 2008. Read the full text at the Community Arts Network.
• “The New New Deal, Part 2 – A New WPA for Artists: How and Why,” January, 2009. Read the full text at the Community Arts Network.
• “To Sanctify,” 2008. Read the full text at the Kaddish Project.
• “The Metrics Syndrome,” 2008. Read the full text at the Community Arts Network.
• The Curriculum Project Report: Culture and Community Development in Higher Education, 2008. Download at the project site.
• “Bromides and Sugar-Pills: Cleaning Out the Artworld Medicine Chest,” Teaching Artist Journal, 6:3, 220-223, July 2008. Click here to download the full text.
• “The Story Revolution: How Telling Our Stories Transforms the World,” Community Arts Network reading room.
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• “Don’t Do It! Organizational Suicide Prevention for Progressives,” Community Arts Network reading room.
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• “Let Them Eat Pie: Philanthropy a la Mode,” appeared in Tikkun 1996, now in Webster’s World of Cultural Democracy.
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• “Memory, Money, and Persistence: Theater of Social Change in Context,” appeared in Theater, Volume 31, Number 3 (Spring 2002).
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• “An Introduction to Arts and Culture,” Community Arts Network reading room,
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• “Grassroots Vanguard,” originally appeared in Art in America, Volume 70, Number 4, April 1982, now on Community Arts Network reading room.
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• “The Big T’shuvah” appeared in New Menorah Rosh HaShanah 5763/2002 issue).
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• “Creative Risk,” originally appeared in Living Text.
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• “The First Consultant” is a drash on the story of Joseph, who served Pharaoh in a way that set the bar for consultants to come.
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• “Fringe People” is a parable of Jewish renewal, inspired by the Book of Ruth and the Biblical text commanding the Israelites to put fringes on the corners of their garments.
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• “Secular Orthodoxy” is about the anti-religious fundamentalism of some non-believers; it originally appeared on Tikkun online in July 2004.
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• “Hard Lessons: Mendocino’s Forest Advisory Committee,” October 1992. Click here to download the full text.

Talks and Speeches

• “Sensing The Demand,” California Arts Advocates Visioning Retreat, “Reframing the Role of the Arts in California, Sacramento, CA, January 2010. Download my brief introductory remarks here and keynote speech here.
• “A New WPA: Why a Sustainable Future Demands Cultural Recovery,” Cultural Policy Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2009. Click here to download the full text and read about other events during this visit to Chicago.
• “America’s Cultural Recovery,” published in Issue 1, Summer 2009 of The Arts Politic, the text of a talk on the 25th anniversary of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Click here to read the full text.
• “The Secret of Survival,” National Summit of Ensemble Theaters, San Francisco, CA, June 2009. Click here to download the full text.
• “Datastan Meets Storyland: Surfing the Zeitgeist Without Wiping Out,” International Centre for Art and Social Change, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 2008. Click here to download the full text.
• “Food for Thought: New Paradigm Community Development,” Arts, Neighborhoods and Social Practice Symposium, UC Berkeley, January 2008. Click here to download the full text.
• “Out of The Box,” Shanti Foundation Conference: Building Peaceful Communities Through the Arts, Chicago, Illinois, October 18-19, 2007. Click here to read the text at the Shanti site.
• “Social Inclusion and the Culture of Participation in Sant Boi,” Cal Ninyo, Sant Boi, Spain, July 2007. Click here to download the full text.
• “Pulling the Wool From Our Eyes,” Western Pennsylvania Arts in Education Partners Resident Artists Conference, May 2007. Click here to download the full text.
• “Converging Worlds: Art, Politics and Community,” Temple University, March 2007. Click here to download the full text.
• “The Culture of Fear,” Democratic Vistas Forum, Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College, Chicago, November 2006.
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• “Higher Ground: Community Arts as Spiritual Practice,” National Guild of Community Schools of The Arts, November 2006.
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• “Why Art Matters,” New College of California, October 2003.
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• “The Permanent Crisis,” UT Austin, January 2003.
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• “The Cultural Policy Colonization of the West or Fattening Frogs for Snakes,” remarks at a September 1999 symposium on “Cultural Policy in the West” convened by the Western States Arts Foundation in Aspen, Colorado.
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• “Better Late Than Never: Or, Confessions of a Premature Cultural-Policy Wonk,” adapted from remarks at a December 1995 symposium on the Status And Future of Public Arts Funding convened by the Missouri Arts Council and the Mid-America Arts Alliance in Saint Louis, Missouri, now in Webster’s World of Cultural Democracy.
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