Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

Always think about your branding, goals, and target audience ahead of the actual creative procedure. Here are some questions that you should consider before embarking on your redesigning journey. This will make your audience more likely to attend the event. If you aren’t an art aficionado, this one’s for you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s been a rough couple years for arts-based nonprofits. As pandemic aid has run out without patrons returning in pre-2020 numbers, many arts nonprofit across the country have had to shrink programming, cut staff, or close altogether. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The quest for relevance begins with knowing your audience. Ultimately, any approach to answering these questions is limited at some point by the size of the audience involved. When you are dealing with an audience of hundreds or thousands of people, you have to make assumptions. You have to generalize.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

When it comes to user participation in cultural institutions and the arts, it's popular to launch projects that pit visitors against experts. at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. This isn't a direct "audience versus expert" comparison.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Call or email funders with any questions about their interests and your eligibility. For instance, there may be several nonprofits that offer art programs for secondary school students, but you are one of the few entities that serve adults 18 years and older. Do you serve K-12 students? The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities? Senior citizens?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

No matter where I’m speaking or teaching workshops, the same questions come up … How much time does it take to do social media effectively? Three Models. Who in our organization is going to do the work? How are ever going to find the time to do social media? Social media does take time even if you are efficient.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." LA MOCA has indeed been front page news, especially in the art world. The first wave of critique focused on the very valid question of why Schimmel was fired in this manner.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

Yesterday, the local paper in Santa Cruz published a great article about my new book, The Art of Relevance. I've learned so much from my dad about making art, putting on a great show, inviting audience participation , and navigating celebrity. Their audience aged with them, and they slid from hot to nostalgic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? I feel strongly that to keep audiences engaged, they have to be moving. Incorporating Movement Into Icebreakers and Small Group Exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

In his question to create the storage battery, he conducted 10,000 experiments before arriving at a method that worked. On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. What were some tactics that you tried? What were the results? ­-If

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. It's inherent in what we do.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

If your audience is one that responds more positively to social media, then you might want to try a social media sharing blitz. Hosting a live-stream fundraiser is an excellent way to attract, nurture, and convert your audience over the course of a day. Let people ask questions, share their experiences, or get involved.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I begin with the instructional goals and finding out as much as possible about the audience. Audience Research.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Negotiated agency" strikes me as a really useful framework in which to talk about visitor/audience participation in the arts. Negotiation" implies a respectful relationship between institution (or artist) and user. Sometimes the negotiation can be exploited for artistic means. How can we make it a win-win?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

I used to think these were easy questions to answer. Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened. At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. Focus on family audiences.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

Now, a year later, I've seen the beginnings of how that question has borne out at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) , as well as hearing from folks around the museum industry about the interplay of exhibitions and events at their own institutions. And so, in this post, a few findings, and more questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

In two weeks, several hundred arts leaders from around the country will gather on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the role of technology in the arts field at the Technology in the Arts Conference. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Was that your progression? Actually, I???m

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use. They were there for artist talks. What kind of an art institution is this? It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. It takes the kind of risks that a university art gallery should take.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. But we tried never to create an event without partners or audiences who were invested in what we were making.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The main audiences for memberships are value members, who think of it as a good deal, lifelong learners, who want to come to as many programs and exhibits as possible, and donors, who support the museum. This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

At a recent talk in Chicago, an audience member asked a question. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

An exhibiting artist approached me recently at an evening event at the museum. But it's a question that many museums seem to address inadequately. Imagine if a theater or jazz club was only open during the day, and what conclusions one might draw about audience type and preferences based on that decision. He's right.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. We urge museums to consider these questions by first looking within. How do these issues relate to the mission and audience of your museum? inclusion'

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2008

Which has more social impact: the place frequented by educated art lovers or the one populated by blue collar joes? Over the last several weekends, my husband and I have been visiting a different kind of art institution: a tattoo parlor. I love having a permanent piece of symbolic art on my arm. People ask questions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Ze Frank recently posed this question to several designers, filmmakers, and artists here , asking: When you make things with an audience in mind, do you have internal representations of that audience to help guide you in the process? Alas, for designers then, "the imagined audience" is both blessing and curse.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2011

I've often argued that art and history museums should adopt this approach and encourage visitors to explore their potential as artists or historians, not just audiences for content. But now I've started to question the value of this message. There are many ridiculous exhibits that prompt you to "be the surgeon!"

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Questions and Discussion.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Here's a site that already has the audience everyone wants: women and moms who make most of the household buying decisions.” Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Be prepared to field some teacher questions. Pinterest Guidelines. Pin your students science fair projects.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. In the fall of 2013, they launched Re:Make , an ambitious project to redevelop the museum, live, on the floor, with a mix of staff, guest artists, and community members. And it leaves me with just one question.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. You just need to show proof of membership. It was super cool. Access to Community.

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