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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling.

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Is it Real? Artwork, Authenticity. and Cognitive Science

Museum 2.0

They arbitrated replicas, reproductions, models, and props. Many artists work with assistants and reproducing processes. They conducted a simple experiment: People read a story about a painting called "Dawn" created by an artist. In some, the artist produced the original painting. If done by the same hand?

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

Museum 2.0

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. In the Odditoreum such irregular actions are not only invited but modeled. They model the requested visitor contributions.

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What Should Happen to Underperforming Nonprofit Organizations?

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They closed for capricious financial reasons, and they left disappointed artists and participants in their wake. What''s the alternative to this waste? Museum of Art and History Unusual Projects and Influences business models' Could each have offered MORE community value? Absolutely.

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

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To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world. But overall, this is a model project that starts with an outcome, not an activity.

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Guest Post by Lina Srivastava: Building Cultural Engagement for Change Through Media and Narrative

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the two frameworks I've been co-creating, Transmedia Activism Modeling Global Change, we've based the frameworks on the core value of putting the social change issue first. It's important to build your platforms to both create and demonstrate impact. This post originally appeared on Lina's blog Strategy for Social Change.

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