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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs.

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ISO Understanding: Rethinking Art Museum Labels

Museum 2.0

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. And it ended with this: No wonder it [MOMA] ends up showing shallow, label-dependent art rather than work that offers deeper, more contradictory encounters. The review was harsh.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email.

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30 Virtual and Hybrid Event Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Participants may improve their painting abilities, try their hand at some knitting, or do whatever other sort of art they like without having to leave the comfort of their own home. Best yet, you could even offer some of the art produced in the class as auction items during your next fundraiser. 7) Shopping. 9) Movie screenings.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. 09 was the first version I used).

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival. Geography is fluid, though.

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Adventures in Artist-Driven Public Engagement: Machine Project at the Hammer Museum

Museum 2.0

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? But for museum and art wonks, it could be.

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