Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

These frustrations are causing barriers to entry for first-time voters, senior voters who’ve had their polling places change year to year, new Philadelphians, recent immigrants and more. NSD) aimed to improve the voting experience and increase civic engagement using public art. Involve Artists from the Very Beginning.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

Have you ever sat through a board retreat and spent more time watching the clock, daydreaming, and checking texts than listening to the facilitator? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, it’s time to find a new board retreat facilitator. Boring retreats provide no value and waste everyone’s time. Were they unengaging?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Pride Month is a great time to celebrate and reflect on the work activists and nonprofit organizations are doing to support the LGBTQ+ community. Our Fund has redesigned its grant process to focus on three key areas with its discretionary grants: Health & Wellness, Social Justice & Equity, and Arts & Culture.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2017

Given these difficult times, we'd like to feature some local organizations that are doing great work, but not getting a lot of attention every day. It is a unified voice of more than 140 organizations. Earlier in June, House of Ruth raised $4,000 from its Redressed: Transformational Art Against Domestic Violence event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Traveling Postcards is a humanitarian organization that is gathering women’s voices worldwide, and creating a traveling collection of visual and written wisdom that so many women hold in their hearts. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

Your nonprofit needs to grow its support base over time to advance its mission. For instance, you can post images from the last time you held this event if it’s recurring, or create an engaging graphic design that highlights the logistical details of your event and what attendees can expect if they attend. social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

Maybe you are muttering to yourself ”Who can find the time to do social media? Maybe you are muttering to yourself ”Who can find the time to do social media?” Amplify Your Voice: If you are sharing articles suggested your staff or colleagues “read this,” switch the channel to something like Twitter.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2015

What she likes about working at TechSoup is that everyone here does something interesting — there are people who like LARP (live action role playing), ghost hunters, lots of people who play in bands, lots of creative writers, yoga practitioners, candy makers, artists, and jewelry makers. He is a great fan of arts charities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

There will be times this year when a thank you email or tweet just isn’t enough to communicate your appreciation. Handwriting is quickly becoming a lost art form. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. Think of that when you are writing the notes. 4) Read more books.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

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." LA MOCA has indeed been front page news, especially in the art world. Last week, my mom called. It's more about that curator who was fired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The Tools Artists Need Geeks To Create Join us to discuss the digital tools being used and abused by theatre makers, dancers, musicians, crafters, wordsmiths, cinematographers, photographers, painters, and other multimedia artists. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? What’s new? What works?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2015

Think back to the last time you crossed a line. In art institutions, we typically treat the curator as the arbiter of quality. and his voice getting lost in the waves. Why are we so afraid that great art will lose its power if we surround it with other work? But some visitors--especially some artists--hate it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2018

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. The OFBYFOR ALL Communications Catalyst will be the online host and voice of the growing global OFBYFOR ALL movement. Both these people will lead innovative work to build community locally and globally.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

I don't usually fist-pump while reading the New York Times. 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. Art becomes a kind of one-liner. If you are new to art, you don’t know what you are missing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

From the perspective of our work, it really means that the more we amplify different voices, the more we are doing our job. Working with Women Center Stage has helped Greer to connect her interests in art and social justice activism as well. Growing up in a family of activists, she struggled with how to bridge her art and activism.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. At the same time, our community relevance was limited. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices. What should be our role(s)?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2014

Over the past eight years, Michael has been specifically focused on the Arts and Cultural marketplace and is an active participant in delivering speaking engagements and contributing to trade publication articles. . How do you internally define arts and culture? It’s what we all are expected to do, isn’t it?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Spend more time in the community to whom you wish to be relevant. But there was no such program focused on the arts. That's a more complicated question. It's pretty simple.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Candid

MAY 29, 2024

This is important because when we talk about identity-related issues, we often focus on one identity at a time (e.g., Imagine a librarian who has separate bookshelves dedicated to art history, women’s history, Latin American studies, and LGBTQ icons. At the same time, visibility isn’t always positive.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2009

In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Sheroes in the Arts. American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Are you inspired by women in the arts? Thought Leaders. Game-Changers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)? I employ the parallel strategy all the time in my work.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

A site also should have a voice and a tone that’s representative of the mission. It’s easy for us to measure clicks and time spent on pages, but that’s only relevant based on what an organization wants their users to do. Most of the time, when you’re looking at an analysis of page visits, you see visits of 30 seconds to a minute.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. She was also featured in the book, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her art visioning work is showcased in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. The reality is that we are facing tough economic times.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

This seems like an appropriate time to share the story. I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

Read time: Kind of a while, tbh, but there’s a shortcut! Pay was lousy, and there was constant pressure from publishers to produce more work in less time. Striving to make storytelling work given the constraints of time, space, the boss’s demands, evolving trends, and how dang hard it is to draw horses. That’s okay.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

"I think about how many times I didn't like the color of my skin, because I didn't see myself in any art. 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.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I'm not talking contemporary art--these kinds of experiences are popping up everywhere. Science centers that have never worried about lines are suddenly managing huge queues, putting up sold out signs for the first time. Put visitors' voices front and center. Exhibitions that point out subconscious bias. But do you compost?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. It's also standard practice in community arts programs. It also focused the experience.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

I heard Frank Warren speak at the American Visionary Art Museum. In 2004, for DC’s Art-o-Matic community show, he initiated an experiment called PostSecret. Within five weeks, he had 100 postcards on display at Art-o-Matic. What makes this such a great community art project? Be legible - use big, clear and bold lettering.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). it uses art, history, artifacts, and storytelling to illuminate a big human story and an urgent social issue.

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