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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Museum 2.0

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?".

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Populism, Commercialism, and Jeffrey Deitch: The Shifting Debate about LA MOCA

Museum 2.0

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." LA MOCA has indeed been front page news, especially in the art world. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, the conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland. One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum. Our aim is to promote the psychological well-being of young children in Hong Kong through parent-child activities using media such as art, music, drama and story-telling.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

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of art, activism, and academic inquiry on the politically charged. Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC. Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe, and numerous other. David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection. His forthcoming.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The organizations are a combination of smaller, progressive organizations like Ushahidi and the Sunlight Foundation and large venerable institutions like NPR and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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