sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

If so, be sure to stock lots of inexpensive and fun items for children. Get to know peers working in shops at other museums and find out what they are offering and scope out their top retail strategies. Work with a local artist to create artworks inspired by your collection. Do lots of families visit your museum?

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity: A Toolbox for Advancing Racial Equity for Arts and Cultural Organizations , by Race Forward This toolkit aims to help artists, arts advocates, culture bearers, and cultural workers to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies in their organizations.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If the answer is “not too upset” and you don’t want to cease to exist, you’ve got some work to do! . Here’s how you can start this critical work. . Are you approaching your work in an active or a passive manner? For example: If you work in the education sector , you could offer learning opportunities to non-enrolled students.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Can this kind of intimacy and informality work in a sprawling metropolis? Nestled in a forest of high-rise apartment buildings, this small museum connects children and families with contemporary art. But while Hello Museum originally opened as a "children's contemporary art museum," that's not the tagline they use today.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

I'm thrilled to say that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Cary Creative Center , or "C3," an organization working to save materials from the landfill by turning them into beautiful art. Creative Reuse: A Universal Language.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. The majority of foundation funding for the arts goes to large, established organizations that present work that is based in the European canon for a primarily white, upper-income audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. " I had a chance to do a quick video interview with her about her thoughts on women artists. They are brilliant!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2017

Given these difficult times, we'd like to feature some local organizations that are doing great work, but not getting a lot of attention every day. The organization provides services to assist women and families with children in maintaining and improving their health in the face of HIV/AIDS. House of Ruth — Baltimore.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Virtual craft fair. Virtual tours for museums. Virtual concert.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. April 7 is National Handmade Day, but even if that date doesn’t work for your calendar, wine and paint go together like PB and J. Art Show and Silent Auction. Paint Night or Craft-acular.

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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. It isn’t whether your experiment is an immediate success, it is more about what you learn about what works and what doesn’t. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Most people who work in the nonprofit sector do so out of a commitment to a cause or passion bigger than themselves or their desire for material things. Your work is valuable and you should be compensated for it. Handwriting is quickly becoming a lost art form. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. Good luck.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. How does Traveling Postcards work?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened. The level of touching, especially of art, has increased.

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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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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

Pay was lousy, and there was constant pressure from publishers to produce more work in less time. To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks. 22 EMAIL LEDES THAT ALWAYS WORK!!

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Or, you do fundraise online, but with the advent of COVID you know you have to kickstart your online work. Try using Gamefly to rent games for the tournament for participants — it works just like the old Netflix (where they send you the game via mail and you mail it back). You can buy art supplies online at Michaels !

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. To be speculative. To be playful. To be creative. The teams delivered.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2014

It asks basic questions about who can define authenticity and quality in an art practice that was historically based in a specific cultural identity but is now being assimilated/exploited/expanded. Some serious parallels to curating exhibitions and performances, especially with living artists. Sound familiar?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists.

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See3

JUNE 3, 2009

GATC mission “is to bridge cultures in conflict through the arts and to create innovative arts-education programs around the world.&#. Wendy’s work was just written about in the Bangkok Post. Here they describe her best-known program.

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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. Events mostly happen in the evening or on weekends, outside of work time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Like we need more spaciousness in our lives for all kinds of things, including working on our big vision. In the meantime, we have to work with what we have, even if it''s only an hour a week. Seuss famously bet that he could write a children''s book [ Green Eggs and Ham ] using only 50 unique words.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe is working to make a difference in the nonprofit community and recognizes that their software is used by the community for creative expression and social advocacy. The Adobe Foundation is a private 501(c)(3) foundation created and funded by Adobe to drive social change and improve the communities in which Adobe employees live and work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Now, years later, as I work with nonprofits who are primarily interested in Facebook and Twitter, there is part of me that mourns the loss of MySpace being used by the nonprofits. To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Music and arts organizations, probably.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The type of events that will work best for your nonprofit will depend on three major factors: Your organization’s mission, your available resources, and your supporter’s preferences. Dance-a-Thon You and your staff work tirelessly to bring your nonprofit’s mission to life. How do you choose just one? Use that to your advantage!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. My focus is on how children learn science. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? It was a fabulous date night (check out said caricature), and the next day I was telling all of my friends – with and without children – that they had to visit Thinkery. Genius, Thinkery, genius!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 27, 2008

Children's book depicting breastfeeding babies and toddlers b. PatronOfTheArts: Save the Arts (Sponsor a Filmmaker or Artist Program) h. Tanya of the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog would like the children's book depicting breastfeeding babies and toddlers to win. Which do you think is a better idea?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

ChildrensHealth : Children's hospitals always need toys this time of year. When I heard about the idea from Allison Fine I immediately thought about the work of Lewis Hyde and gift economies or the art of pay it forward. So, here's how it works. Don't wait till the last minute - it takes time to sort, distribute.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Civic Ventures , a San Francisco nonprofit group, will award 5 Americans over 60, whose work has fostered significant social innovation, $100,000 to further their work. Not only does the Market give folk art collector folks an opportunity to see and buy work from all over the world, the coolest thing is what it means for the artists.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. We've been trying to actively combat this at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in Santa Cruz. We ask people to do serious work, and they pick up paintbrushes and join in.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

Moments of obligation are described as: "At certain moments in your life, you may find yourself pulled toward a path leading to work that will benefit others. At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. Even on the “social media for social good” panel, I believe I was the only one who actually worked within a nonprofit or social enterprise. Crowdsourcing killed punk rock…Crowdsourcing kills art…It’s bullshit. I want to be exposed to things.”

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. The staff member I worked with had in mind a particular feeling she wanted people to go away having--that kind of sense of community that comes when you've worked together to achieve something.

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