This 90-minute learning session, held on November 8, 2024, and facilitated by writer, curator, and educator Ariel Goldberg, provided LitNet members with skills and strategies for navigating conflict within their organizations and among their communities.
Open to any current staff of LitNet members, the event included a presentation, followed by a group conversation and breakout sessions designed to help participants apply strategies to sample scenarios.
Ariel Goldberg (they/them) is a writer, curator, and educator specializing in grassroots cultural organizing and trans and queer lineages in photography. Goldberg’s books include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015). They are, mostly recently, a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at the New York Public Library (2024) and a recipient of a 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for their book-in-progress Just Captions: Ethics of Trans and Queer Image Cultures. Their art writing has appeared in Lucid Knowledge: On the Currency of the Photographic Image, Afterimage Journal, e-flux, Jewish Currents, Artforum, and Art in America. Goldberg has taught writing and contemporary art practices at Bard College, The New School, New York University, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, and Rutgers University since 2011. Their exhibition on photography’s relationship to spaces for learning, Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s has toured from the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati to the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in NYC and the Chicago Cultural Center in 2024. Goldberg has curated public programs and community-based-educational opportunities for over ten years at venues including Magnum Foundation, The Poetry Project, and Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center. Goldberg holds a certificate in Basic Mediation Training from the New York Peace Institute.
Automated closed captioning will be available for this event. If you have other accessibility requests, please contact Chelsea Kern at ckern@clmp.org. A recording of the event will be made available to attendees and LitNet members.