Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. 09 was the first version I used).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2013

Check out this inane AT&T commercial about a woman whose absorption in her smartphone is so great that Facebook updates become substantiated as pieces of art in the museum through which she strolls. But I feel that they are societal issues, not issues specific to museums or art institutions. Ready for something ridiculous?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2015

In art institutions, we typically treat the curator as the arbiter of quality. Why are we so afraid that great art will lose its power if we surround it with other work? We wanted to reflect this diversity of identities by inviting all kinds of artists and artworks into the gallery. Did you feel brave? An inspiration.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. Please share yours in the comments. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. I keep visitor comments in my office. All of them are cheap, mostly simple, and occasionally, dangerous.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it.

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Create categories that reflect what users are looking for. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Create a shared Board for visitors to pin their favorite works of art or to share shots of themselves feeding their favorite animals. (In I’m sure we can expand on this together in the comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I'm participating in Reverb 10 this month, an online project that provides daily prompts to help you reflect on the past year, and the year ahead. Feel free to share your answers in the comments. The kind comments and emails I've received this year from Have Fun, Do Good readers. You can see my past Reverb 10 posts here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Interestingly--for good and ill--this transformative funding program coincided with a national funding crisis in the arts in the UK. Different External Voices Bring Different Skills to the Table Community partners, artists, peers, and funders all play different roles as collaborators and contributors to participatory institutions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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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?" I was surprised by her question. In Your Face ).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2007

This week's New Yorker magazine features an article about the Turner Prize, "the world's best-known contemporary-art competition." The Turner Prize was launched in 1984 by the Tate Britain to reward young British artists, and has had controversial effects on both public perception of contemporary art--and the artists themselves.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Reading The Great Good Place provides an opportunity as museum professionals to identify third places in our community, reflect upon our relationship to them, and consider the ways our museum could be a third place for members in the community.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. But I also found myself wondering if this imagined set of interpretations for the art was any more compelling or useful than any other imagined set of interpretations. together on one large panel nearby.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If not, please share a comment and let's talk online. Our Story I came to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago. As one visitor recently commented, "the MAH has become 'our' museum, a reflection of us and a place where we can appreciate art, share it with each other, learn and make new connections."

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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. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. The Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

On September 10, the Whitney Museum of American Art started offering a new membership called "Curate Your Own," in which members select one of five specialized "buckets" of benefits in addition to core admission and discount benefits. People want to experience art in quite individual ways. The "insiders" are another example.

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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? But for museum and art wonks, it could be.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. You say and feel that in spaces that are unusual, distinctive, and in their own way, tailored to your preferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process. Walker Art Center New Media Blog Interview with New Media Designer Community Programs Blog Interview with community program. Some comments by Bob Moffit about their blogging experience. Artistic Director Blog (Inactive). Gilbert commented. Some examples: 1.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Here’s what happened: an art critic named Jerry Saltz posted an incendiary note on Facebook about the very low representation of women artists on the 4th and 5th floors (painting and sculpture) of MoMA. When those spaces are factored in, there are more than 250 works by female artists on view now. Let’s start there.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! 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. The Museum 2.0

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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? My feeling as an exhibit designer is that I need to work somewhere between artist and product designer.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes END-OF-YEAR EVENT FUNDRAISING The final quarter of the year unfolds with a blend of reflection and anticipation. Traditional Events Traditional year-end fundraising events, such as galas, are meant to celebrate your hard work, reflect on your impact, and thank your donors and sponsors.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I saw every part of our vacation through the lens of the book, and my climbing partner (a highly active and artistic guy) and I spent a lot of time analyzing the choices we did and didn't make and how they reflected our expressions of identity. How does it reflect your personal identity? How do you spend your leisure time?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Reassert the "forum"?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Traditional year-end fundraising events, such as galas, are meant to celebrate your hard work, reflect on your impact, and thank your donors and sponsors. TUTORING ART. Tutoring Art can even host Virtual Painting Fundraisers & Instructionals on your organization’s behalf. Traditional Events.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. It's also standard practice in community arts programs. than by talking in suppositions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

During this reflection, many new ideas on how to pivot and iterate rise up. 6. Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund. California arts organizations conducted 28 experiments to achieve new relevance for audiences, communities and professional artists with support from The James Irvine Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. " I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

It also includes reflections from the exhibit team on the project. In Praise of the Post-It There's lots of post-it-powered art on the web these days (like this and this ). It's like following blog comments. Not everyone comes back to read the evolving comment stream, but the aggregate is always valuable to the next visitor.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Several were created or conceived by a single person, often an artist/non-museum professional. When everyone in an organization is led by the same story, the organization's content output reflects that story and a mythic central storyteller. Of course the exhibit reflects your point of view--you're the only storyteller in the room!

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