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. Let’s start with empowerment.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Kentucky Foundation For Women. Areas served: Kentucky.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Empowerment? But that''s just our institution--not everyone''s.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Kentucky Foundation For Women. Areas served: Kentucky.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. That's a more complicated question.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. I also enjoyed a presentation by Alice Black, Deputy Director of the Design Museum in London.

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