Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. We wrote about that in a recent blog post, Why the Google Art Project is Important.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. 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. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

In gaining and retaining attention, the use of any media (film, art, social media) needs to be sparse, consistent and targeted and, more importantly, to create a personal connection. And media (social, journalistic or arts-based) can be used at every step of that equation. 3) What are you trying to change?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We invited local artists and community groups to perform. and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. We make room for interns and artists and people who walk in the door with crazy ideas. We scrounged for free couches. But we got it going anyway.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. It couldn’t be an educational space with no works of art in it.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Amber Grant Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Amber Grant Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We're taking the art of freelancing for writers, and making it much more transparent and much more public. I got the grant about a year ago, and then it took us about four to five months to get up and running. The other one I'd say is, I'm a big believer in collaboration, and the future of journalism is collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The groups can use three different approaches: physical, artistic, or traditional word presentation. Not only does the activity support local artists, it challenges how outsiders and insiders engage with each other and share knowledge in a conference setting. Where do our eyes go to in art?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. You go online, and that’s why physical culture is at risk.

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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. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments!

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. Robin’s asking, “Writing a grant, how can you report impact and add measures to success with looking for funding for a pilot program?” Grant proposals.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Melissa Schilling , writer and photographer for Project Hope Art. The success of Project Hope Art's blog has come from understanding what their audience wants and how to move them to action. Project Hope Art engages its supporters to raise funds to help children affected by the earthquake that devastated Haiti.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

The Detroit Institute of Arts has been a precious anchor where many of us have created memories that helped define who we are today. The label did not address that the artist sexually abused her, gave her syphilis, and colonized her home. It would be difficult to count the wonderful opportunities I’ve had here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Collaborative Overload: Collaborative overload is the burnout that results from over use of e-mails, meetings and other collaborative tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. The term was coined by Rob Cross, Adam Grant, and Reb Rebele in this HBR article. Artist Tiles.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2007

It's an opportunity to see how something is made, to un-take-for-granted the way it works. They were working on a build collaboratively, with one person's computer hooked up to a digital projector, so Second Life was about 4x6 ft on our wall. It involves me, even as an onlooker, in the process. We were there before the record wins.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Many of them had almost nothing by way of material resources, but they had imagination, and if you have imagination, you can, it turns out, light the dark with all kinds of creative arts. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They are making progress.

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