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Non-Fungible Fundraising: NFTs for Good

Whole Whale

New records for sales of the digital good seem to be reached each week with an upcoming sale of NFT artist Beeple’s ‘Everydays’ compilation went for $69 million in March, 2021 (source: The Verge ). For a little history here, the game CryptoKitties was the first major use case for NFTs and has been a huge success.

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Faith Ringgold: 30 Years of Art-Making and Activism and Video Clip on Women Artists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. " I had a chance to do a quick video interview with her about her thoughts on women artists. Could you write a story?

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On White Privilege and Museums

Museum 2.0

They tell histories of white male conquest. 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.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library’s collection. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. My focus is on how children learn science. Learning Science by Design.

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How Different Types of Museums Approach Participation

Museum 2.0

History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation. They are frequently about real people's stories. For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Guest Post: Considering a Commons in Collection at the Elsewhere Collaborative

Museum 2.0

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

Museum 2.0

In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. We've been trying to actively combat this at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in Santa Cruz. Share your story with other visitors. Then there are lots of blank butterflies on which you can write your story and then pin it to the wall.