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Want to Co-Create an Exhibition on a Hot Issue? Introducing the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

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We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. You can download it for free right now. This project wove together many different participatory threads. Short story: we learned a lot. What did we learn?

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. You can download and read the full version of my thesis here. The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

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It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. When planning programs or events, we involve a combination of these groups to share and bridge audiences, bringing big, diverse crowds to new artists and ideas. Large and small (or no) followings.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment.

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The Living Library: Using Our Institutions as New Models for Civic Dialogue

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On the Living Library website , you can also find sample catalogues, Book application forms, and marketing materials for download. A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. well, you know.

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Advice: An Exhibition about Talking to Strangers

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There is also a final evaluation report available for download, which offers lots of great quantitative and qualitative content about what visitors did in the exhibit. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. It also includes reflections from the exhibit team on the project.

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ASKing about Art at the Brooklyn Museum: Interview with Shelley Bernstein and Sara Devine

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So, success looks like a lot of things, but it’s not going to be a download rate as a primary measure. Send in your question, and it can be days before the artist or curator responds with an answer. That being said, we get all kinds of questions — details in the works, about the artist, why the work is in the Museum, etc.

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