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Introducing Community Participation Bootcamp at the MAH

Museum 2.0

For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp. Come to this two-day bootcamp to: Articulate your goals for community participation at your organization. Develop compelling, powerful participatory offers and promises for your prospective partners.

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

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There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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A Community-Driven Approach to Program Design

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At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. There are many amazing community representatives from business, arts, education, and social services who connect us to powerful ideas and partners. Six goals for MAH community programs.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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How I Got Here

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I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. After a long day running around a science center, I would show up at the Worcester Art Museum in the evening and make $20 just to stand around and listen to a painting instructor talk about art. You have to tell them what you want.

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Notes on Structure Lab: Legal and Financial Models for Social Entrepeneurship

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Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept. A company in which program recipients are involved with governance suggests a community board model.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

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I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” I consider this the greatest obstacle to the inclusion of participatory practice in cultural institutions because it fundamentally changes the way organizations staff and fund projects.

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