Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. That something may be a place, an identity, an interest, a worldview. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. We're a place you can work off your traffic ticket.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. I watched as the girls carefully placed just a few stickers on their cards.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reasons: to explore the "how" of participatory design in museums, cultural centers, libraries, and science centers to create a version of this blog that was more "shareable" with organizational leaders and trustees By many measures, the book has been a success. Empowerment? Social bridging?

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers). It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language.

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Professional Global Develop France 40

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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Professional Global Develop France 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

There was nothing in place to help get these people into the place where they could best be of service in an organized way. The first couple days in Cambodia we learned about the culture, which was very important, but also very challenging for the participants. As a result, you have a culture of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. That was happening as a result of a pernicious rumor, which is floated, essentially, by the traditional healers there, and in other places. And, their weapon is poetry. And the little girls do exactly that.

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