Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2017

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. The Exhibitions Catalyst will lead the way in bringing together artists and diverse partners in the development of powerful exhibitions. We are dreaming big, reaching out, and going deep.

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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. You can check out all twenty research projects here. To be playful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2012

This is a picture of the largest temporary exhibition gallery in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We're turning over the whole museum to projects that invite visitors to connect with the behind-the-scenes in the making of art and historical research. Our next exhibition is opening in here in two days.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2013

The campers are about half museum professionals, half artists, architects, and designers of all stripes. This project is a big, audacious risk for everyone involved. But as we work out all of the kinks, I''ve come to realize that my biggest fear is that the projects won''t be risky enough.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

March 2-6, four women arts activists ( Cris Williamson , Vicki Randle , Alix Olson and Pamela Means) will travel to New Orleans to collaborate with four local women musicians ( Asia Rainey , GaBrilla Ballard , Sunni Patterson , and Charmaine Neville ). women musician New Orleans art activism

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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. How did this project come about? What were the City Gallery goals for the project? I really wanted visitors to make this their own project and their own space; not mine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

She is also a registered yoga teacher and plans to have a finished memoir project by the end of this year. That we don’t have to be chained to the singular story of suffering looping around in our mind. Supporting art and artists, writers and books. Learning how to tell a personal story is a powerful tool for healing.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

George is a stranger I met last week at SFMOMA’s new show, The Art of Participation:1950 to Now. The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. Here are two pictures. The first one is me. The second one is George.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. The lead photo on this post is from a project I saw when I visited last spring. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. I found this idea really powerful. I host dating games. We dance out our bad times.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. Kickstarter is a website for creative folks to find funding for their dream projects. Currently, the site supports US-based projects only. A Kickstarter project has three parts: Project description. Or sail around the world. How would you fund it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. 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. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Scarcity captures the mind. The mind orients automatically, powerfully, toward unfulfilled needs. The most recent one was during the The National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Scarcity is more than just the displeasure of having very little. It changes how we think.”.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

The curatorial team or a multidisciplinary team who have the audience in mind when decisions are made about the best way to connect visitors to the collection?" What is on their minds. Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Image courtesy of Luke Tan What you are looking at is a raining tree in front of the Asian Civilisations Museum , created by Dutch-born artist Iepe B. This tree/sprite/installation is a perfect example of what is, in my mind, the optimal tension between awesome content creation and visitor involvement. or create them on their own.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

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. I was impressed by the joy people felt about the projection of a wave at the entrance of their Unseen Oceans show.

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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. Did you have a moment where there wasn’t mind and body, but simply a cohesive YOU, alive and present? Below are my quick answers to the prompts for December 11-16. What’s your next step?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Participants may improve their painting abilities, try their hand at some knitting, or do whatever other sort of art they like without having to leave the comfort of their own home. Best yet, you could even offer some of the art produced in the class as auction items during your next fundraiser. 7) Shopping.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

Last year, I met Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project , an extremely cool "post-educational" space in Los Angeles that is part art gallery, part workshop space, part mad scientist party central. Their mission statement is: "Machine Project exists to encourage heroic experiments of the gracefully over-ambitious."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 27, 2008

PatronOfTheArts: Save the Arts (Sponsor a Filmmaker or Artist Program) h. Project Epiphany: Transformative Astronomy Education Inspiring Science Achievement They are 8 finalists (all women) in the running to win $10,000 this month from Ideablob.com. Meaningful Education in Africa for the Average Child: Lead Now Fellows f.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2009

In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What happens when you combine reality TV tactics with a traditional art collection? This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 13, 2008

Not just why did I do it in a fun, interesting way, but what mechanism is going on inside of my heart, and my body, and my mind such that I would choose to engage in something so disciplined, and stick to it so impeccably for an entire year? BB: You started a blog with this project. BB: What's the next step for this project?

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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. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. She was also featured in the book, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her art visioning work is showcased in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. Also, getting in touch with what's their essence? Who are they as a person?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

But today I had an experience that reinvigorated my love for and belief in tangible projects that can fill museums with content that is user-generated, shared, and explored. I heard Frank Warren speak at the American Visionary Art Museum. In 2004, for DC’s Art-o-Matic community show, he initiated an experiment called PostSecret.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). Which made my mind go to a far more irreverent destination: Mad Libs. The artist made something funny."

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

During one of the most exciting periods in NASA's history, some of the toughest, most mission-critical work was being done behind the scenes by the astute minds of Johnson, Vaughn, and Jackson. Sheroes in the Arts. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

When we have a critical mass of new people, anywhere from 3-7 a month, I try to explain the project as briefly as possible. Never mind your work experience, what do you really want to be doing that the library can help you accomplish? Tags: guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. But not every piece of every project has to be capital-A Art — often, craft is what is needed. Ask for what you need up front.

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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. March of Dimes Nancy White reflects on the project in response to postings by me and Lisa from Rherotic of Me. Artistic Director Blog (Inactive).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Also, as more people do work that is not physically taxing, the desire to "veg out" has faded and the desire to use leisure to improve our bodies, minds, and creative abilities has increased. At the gallery, we were curious rechargers, connecting our own personal experience to some incredible art and stories.

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