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Adobe Is Creating Change

Tech Soup

Launched in 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is designed to provide youth in underserved areas with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large. The Bronx Guild in New York brings you the story of a young woman coming out to her family. students with a global audience.

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On White Privilege and Museums

Museum 2.0

They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. When non-white stories are told, they are always flagged as such--an exhibition of Islamist scientific inventions or women pioneers or African-American artists. Not as humans, or artists, or scientists, or dancers.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Artist Blogs. s Blog about?

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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

Museum 2.0

The more we see our leisure activities as tied to our self-identity, the more consciously we choose what to do with our free time. Additionally, I have other more central leisure identity needs--to be physically active, to take risks, to be outside, to make things--that are rarely accommodated by museums.

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Why Click! is My Hero (What Museum Innovation Looks Like)

Museum 2.0

It’s not really a photography show in the way I would curate a photography show.” Both the New York Times and the Washington Post commented that the resulting show is not that visually impressive, but they are comparing Click! produced a new kind of visitor behavior. Not necessarily better, but different and new.

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