“The thing that I am fighting against is the same thing that I think that the impulse to found the Lesbian Herstory Archives in 1974 was. We are in a life struggle project, which is to stop erasure and build stronger coalitions with people that are battling a lot of repression. And I think that liberatory projects absolutely depend on intergenerational knowledge sharing.”

-Ariel Goldberg

Last year, the Jewish Museum of Maryland presented an exhibition titled Material/Inheritance: Contemporary Work by New Jewish Culture Fellows. Curated by Leora Fridman and presented in partnership with the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, this groundbreaking show featured 30 Jewish artists dealing with themes like chosen and biological family, queer and trans identities, embodiment and sexuality, diasporic homes, ritual reinventions, activist movements, political histories, and so much more.

One of the artists featured in Material/Inheritance, Ariel Goldberg, contributed to the exhibition by creating an episode of the Disloyal podcast with co-hosts Mark Gunnery and Naomi Rose Weintraub.

Ariel Goldberg is a writer, curator, and photographer based in New York City who curated a show titled Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s. That exhibition, which is on view at the Chicago Cultural Center through August 4, 2024, explores photographic documentation of activism, education, and media production within lesbian, trans, queer, and feminist grassroots organizing from the 1970s through the 1990s. It was commissioned by the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, and was on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City last year.

On this episode of Disloyal, Goldberg talks about their research into the Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA) traveling slideshows, reading texts related to that project, and playing audio from interviews they did with the LHA’s Joan Nestle and Alexis Danzig. They also spoke to Disloyal hosts Mark Gunnery and Naomi Rose Weintraub about queer imaging practices, the importance of intergenerational knowledge sharing in queer communities, and ways that images and education fit into social movements.

Read Ariel Goldberg's curatorial statement here.

This episode features “Angry Atthis” by Maxine Feldman and “Prove it on Me,” a cover of a Ma Rainey song, by Bell’s Roar aka Sean Desiree. Thank you to Helen...

Disloyal is back with a live episode!

Mark Gunnery (he/him) and Naomi Rose Weintraub (they/them) hosted a live taping of Disloyal at the Jewish Museum of Maryland on June 1, 2023, to discuss the JMM's latest exhibit, Material/Inheritance: Contemporary Work by New Jewish Culture Fellows, with: 

• Leora Fridman (she/her), writer, educator, New Jewish Culture Fellow, JMM Curator-in-Residence, and curator of the exhibit;
• Adam Golfer (he/him) filmmaker, artist, and New Jewish Culture Fellow whose work was featured in the exhibit;
•  Rabbi and poet Mónica Gomery (she/her), who sat on the curatorial panel for the exhibit. 

They spoke in front of a live audience at the JMM about the exhibit, the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, the challenges and joys of presenting contemporary art in Jewish spaces, and much more. 

Material/Inheritance: Contemporary Work by New Jewish Culture Fellows is an exhibit of boundary-pushing, community-building contemporary Jewish art, and features 30 artists whose work has been supported by the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, a national arts fellowship that advances the work of groundbreaking Jewish artists.

To learn more about the exhibit, visit materialinheritance.com.

Disloyal is back! In this episode, co-hosts Mark Gunnery and Naomi Weintraub speak with Leora Fridman about the Jewish Museum of Maryland's newest exhibit, Material/Inheritance: Contemporary Work by New Jewish Culture Fellows. An exhibition of boundary-pushing, community-building contemporary Jewish art, Material/Inheritance features 30 artists whose work has been supported by the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, a national arts fellowship that advances the work of groundbreaking Jewish artists. The exhibit runs from March 26 through June 11, 2023.

Leora Fridman is a writer, educator, New Jewish Culture Fellow, and the JMM’s Curator-in-Residence. She curated Material/Inheritance.