Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. Participants Are The Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Media and narrative play significant roles in creating and building these platforms. 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. 3) What are you trying to change?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

As I mentioned in a post last week , I'd like to teach a a class in 2011 about The Art of Blogging: Creating Juicy Content for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. I'll never take being able to walk for granted again. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step? Prompt by Scott Belsky ).

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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 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

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I spent last week holed up in a cabin, working on my forthcoming book, The Art of Relevance. They mounted an exhibition, “The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada’s First Peoples,” that sparked native public protests. They were relearning their own ceremonial rituals and the role of medicine bundles within them.

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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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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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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. Several attendees in the session voiced impassioned concern that businesses not overstep their bounds in terms of influencing the artistic product, a concern I have not heard here in the US.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. Several attendees in the session voiced impassioned concern that businesses not overstep their bounds in terms of influencing the artistic product, a concern I have not heard here in the US.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

And an art gallery. Redressing this oversight, this paper concentrates on three elements largely overlooked by our field - space, space mix, and unexpected use - and attempts to show that if museum planners were to pay overt attention to these, they could enhance the community-building role our institutions increasingly play.

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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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