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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

As we look to hire BIPOC designers and amplify their voices, we also have to examine our industry definition of what “good” design is and start building a completely new system—by everyone, for everyone. . What were structures in places at the time? . What is beauty and good design, and who created the rules? The people at the top.

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The AI Writing Prompt Formula and Prompt Ideas

Whole Whale

This can also be a good place to add your brand voice or donor personas to describe who you are talking to. These histories can be built on but there is a risk they begin to drift from the original prompt and even forget key elements. Start from scratch : some interfaces like ChatGPT allow for long threaded chats.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

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

Museum 2.0

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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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

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. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Gabriela Mistral. Rosalind Franklin. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.

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How Can You Attract New Audiences Without Alienating Your Base?

Museum 2.0

It requires trading a certain history for an uncertain future--a nerve-wracking prospect no matter the situation. And in both cases, the institutions eventually started making more tough decisions to make those new audiences and programs more central to the ways they plan shows, program events, and even how their membership structures work.