2012 Artist Help History 
Museum 2.0
MAY 10, 2011
It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution.
Museum 2.0
JULY 11, 2012
I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 13, 2012
In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. Social media has become an important tool for me in storytelling and, in particular, helping to finance my work. I saw for myself that history was unfolding in front of me.
Museum 2.0
MAY 21, 2014
Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. We wrote a new mission statement.
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 3, 2012
She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 28, 2011
We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. And the crayon drawings on the fridge door in an exhibition of award-winning local artists? People will talk about what they are writing or making.
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3.
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