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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

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4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. 16) MoMa Design Store :: store.moma.org. One-of-a-kind gifts designed to help St. 5) Audubon Society :: audubon.org/marketplace.

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Five Reasons to Come to MuseumCamp 2017

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Dear friends, We're about a month from the deadline to apply for MuseumCamp 2017 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Dive into co-creative project design. A month before MuseumCamp, the MAH is opening a new exhibition, Lost Childhoods , co-developed with foster youth, youth advocates, and artists in our community.

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Want to Co-Create an Exhibition on a Hot Issue? Introducing the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

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We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. The lessons I learned from Lost Childhoods are at the heart of the OF/BY/FOR ALL project we're building now. Short story: we learned a lot.

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

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The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days. If you design interactives for kids, adults recognize that the experience is not for them, and they don't engage. But I don't think that theory holds up. The colors are muted.

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

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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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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Sheroes in the Arts. Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. Artemisia Gentileschi, a shero of the ancient times, was an Italian painter and is considered one of the greatest and most progressive artists of her generation.

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PostSecret: Lessons in Meaningful User-Generated Content

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I heard Frank Warren speak at the American Visionary Art Museum. In 2004, for DC’s Art-o-Matic community show, he initiated an experiment called PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation.