Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Recent reports have alluded to class and race divisions between MySpace and Facebook users. In fact, I think MySpace is probably the best online representative of our society in terms of race and class that exists on the Web today, but it is incorrect to assume that MySpace is only a community of poor people.

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Myspace Teen Social Network Facebook 190

Everyaction

JULY 12, 2018

Anyone briefly strolling through this park will likely hear the sound of a brass band and see local artists scattered along the sidewalk. Rated by BonApetit Magazine as the #1 Best New Restaurant in America in 2017, Turkey and the Wolf serves up the best sandwiches one EveryAction staffer has ever had. The Audubon Zoo. French Market.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. We must raise $1,000 to keep our classes going for another year.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

When writing The Art of Relevance , I knew I wanted to share a bit of his story and the ways artists negotiate the relevance of their own work. But for the artists and objects involved, and for the people who care for them, these shifts can be dislocating. Here's that chapter. But we make those decisions and changes all the time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. For example, at one point, I thought I wanted to be a massage therapist, but then I took a massage class, and realized I had to massage naked people I didn't know.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Since its opening in 1962, SLAC has been helping create the future, including the launch of the first website in North America in 1991. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Excellence – Website for Science The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) is a multipurpose research facility operated by Stanford University for the U.S.

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Award Communication Colorado Museum 80

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5.

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Participatory Question Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

For the last three years, I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with the Smithsonian Latino Center as part of the Educators Advisory Council, in preparation for the forthcoming Molina Galleries , which will focus on celebrating the contributions of Latinos in the History of America. Swarupa Anila, and Ken Morris.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

They voted on the best plays in the days of Sophocles, stormed the symphony halls when confronted with artistic dischord, and talked and wrote about what they saw and what they thought. By the early twentieth century people of all social classes were expected to treat arts events as private experiences.

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Greece Arts Industry Participatory 51

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The genocide selectively targeted the educated: doctors, lawyers, and scientists, but also artists and poets were all annihilated so as to make room for this zero culture, people with no expression, no personalities, no agendas. It was so fun. These kids want to learn. We give them support along the way on this.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I often tell people the story of how I used to think that I wanted to be a massage therapist, until I took a class and I realized you had to massage naked people you didn't know. Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists.

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Podcast Arts Oakland St. Louis 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. and looking at how our issues are linked across race, class, gender, country, origin, religion, everything. One other challenge I wanted to share, let's see, what was it.

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