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The Sit-Ins: A Story of Creative and Strategic Struggle

DipJar

The story of that day, the movement it spawned, and its lasting impact are told at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. The museum opened on February 1, 2010, the 50th anniversary of the sit-in that marked a watershed moment in the movement for justice. Photograph Credit :Mark Herboth, ArchDaily.

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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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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?". Humans empower each other.

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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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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. The Statement contains Five Universal Principles guiding professionals engaging in philanthropy which are Honesty, Respect, Integrity, Empathy and Transparency.

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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." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC. Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe, and numerous other. was awarded a Knight 2010 News Challenge grant for Stroome , a collaborative video editing and publishing platform designed to. conferences and public events around the world.