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Towards A New WPA: Supporting Women Artists Now
Panelist Bios
ARLENE GOLDBARD
Arlene Goldbard is a writer, speaker and consultant whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics and spirituality. Her blog and other writings may be downloaded from her Web site: www.arlenegoldbard.com. She was born in New York and grew up near San Francisco. Her most recent book, New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development was published by New Village Press in November 2006. She is also co-author of Community, Culture and Globalization, an international anthology published by the Rockefeller Foundation and Clarity, a novel.
Her essays have been published in In Motion Magazine, Art in America, Theatre, Tikkun, and many other journals. She has addressed many academic and community audiences in the U.S. and Europe, on topics ranging from the ethics of community arts practice to the development of integral organizations. She has provided advice and counsel to hundreds of community-based organizations, independent media groups, and public and private funders and policymakers including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Independent Television Service, Appalshop and dozens of others.
She is currently focusing on two main projects: a campaign to create cultural recovery for the U.S., including a new WPA for artists; and a film about Rabbi Arthur Waskow. She serves as President of the Board of Directors of The Shalom Center.
CAROL JENKINS
Carol Jenkins is a writer, producer and media analyst. An Emmy-winning former television journalist, she was founding president and board member of The Women's Media Center, the non-profit aimed at increasing coverage and participation of women in the media. In that WMC role she conceived the Progressive Women's Voices media leadership program, and acquired and devleoped the largest women experts' database, SheSource.
Ms. Jenkins' current interest is the health of girls and women. She serves on the USA board of AMREF, the largest African health organization on the continent, and as Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Black Maternal Health Project of Women's ENews.
She is the co-author of Black Titan:A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. A biography of her uncle, it was winner of Best Non-Fiction award from the Black Caucus of The American Library Association.
A lifelong supporter of women's issues, she has served on the boards of The Ms. Foundation for Women and The Feminist Press, among many others.
MARTHA RICHARDS
Martha Richards is the Founder and Executive Director of WomenArts, formerly known as The Fund for Women Artists. Prior to WomenArts, Richards served as Executive Director of Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College and as Managing Director of StageWest, a regional theatre in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Richards has been frequently recognized for her commitment to women and the arts. In April 2006 she was one of three U.S. nominees (with Quincy Jones and Wynton Marsalis) for the prestigious international Montblanc De La Culture Award for outstanding service to the arts. In April 2009 she was inducted into the BayPath College 21st Century Women Business Leaders Hall of Fame for her work in philanthropy. She has been honored as one of three "founding mothers" of the Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts.
Richards has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of Law. She is a member of the California bar, and she was one of the founding directors of California Lawyers for the Arts.
ELIZABETH A. SACKLER
Elizabeth A. Sackler is an arts activist, public historian, and American Indian advocate. Her commitment to scholarship and to the public sphere is guided by the work itself. In that way—just as she established the American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation in 1992 and continues to lecture and write on ethics and morality in the art market and beyond— the idea of a place, a center, bound to equality without artificial constraints led her to found the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, which opened in March 2007.
The Sackler Center is the permanent home of “The Dinner Party” by Judy Chicago, honoring women’s contributions in all fields throughout history. Lectures and panel discussions about feminist art, theory and activism take place in the Center’s Forum, and featured exhibitions are held in its Feminist Art and Herstory galleries.
Dr. Sackler sits on the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, is a member of the National Council on Public History, and is a Trustee of the Brooklyn Museum.
Whether through lectures and writings, or through activism and dedication to the arts, Native Americans, or the empowerment of women, a common thread exists: Elizabeth Sackler’s drive to promote gender parity and social equality.
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