Museum 2.0
MARCH 28, 2012
We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. We used Beck Tench's honeycomb format to present the six main goals for MAH community programs against which we'll assess new ideas (quickly--about the first ten minutes after introductions).
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.
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Museum 2.0
AUGUST 29, 2012
But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language). I found only one comment about the diversity of visitors to the DIA, but that was presented in rebuttal to someone saying it is an elitist organization.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 21, 2006
We use these processes to get us to an end goal, then wipe the desk clean and present the finale as an isolated, perfect thing. Others are artistic projects—Jonathon Coulton’s popular Thing a Week (he writes a song each week), Scott McCloud's " Morning Improv " comics. Or the mathematician with half-proofs splayed around the kitchen.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 2, 2015
They mounted an exhibition, “The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada’s First Peoples,” that sparked native public protests. More broadly, native people criticized the exhibition for presenting their culture without consulting them or inviting them into the process. A year later, a new CEO, Bob Janes, came to Glenbow.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 6, 2008
Had we held onto an authority voice rather than presenting ourselves as individuals engaged in the project, people would not have been willing to weather the storms with us. To produce that content, I put an ad on craigslist and invited artists down to The Tech to be videotaped while creating art.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 18, 2012
You could never convince my boys, at the adventurous ages of 4 and 6, that they are not the best artists, singers, dancers, ninjas, runners, hide-and-seekers, Spiderman or the Pumpkin King. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. They simply ARE.
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