Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. Here's what I think is really strong about the report: Coordinated, succinct research findings supporting the rise of active arts engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

For instance, there may be several nonprofits that offer art programs for secondary school students, but you are one of the few entities that serve adults 18 years and older. Starting with a small-scale or pilot project allows for innovation, gathering feedback, refining the model as needed, and expanding the program if it proves successful.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Earlier this month, the Detroit Institute of Arts was "saved" by a voter-approved property tax (called a "millage") in its three surrounding counties. I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2014

They arbitrated replicas, reproductions, models, and props. While many of their examples came from history and natural science, one of my favorite examples is from art. Many artists work with assistants and reproducing processes. In some, the artist produced the original painting. Whose soul is stamped on a work of art?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Trying to do everything, a scarcity model, is such an exhausting way to work. She also admits that shift from artist to curator is not an easy one for many nonprofits because of the way they are structured. Flickr Photo by TheeErin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Three Models. I’ve had the pleasure of working with ZER01 , the producer of the 01SJ Biennial , a multi-disciplinary, multi-venue event of visual and performing arts, the moving image, public art, and interactive digital media. Who in our organization is going to do the work?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. We'd love to see this model evolve and grow. Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last month, I had the good fortune to join a few brilliant people for a " Dinner-vention " about the future of the arts in America. In the course of the conversation, Devon Smith, a social media consultant from Threespot, started talking the problem of arts organizations that are no longer relevant or useful to their communities.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Want some waffles with your art? Community science workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. Trust me. What’s new? What works?

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Paint and sip events work for any type of organization, artists of all levels, and can easily be adapted for every season. If you’re going the DIY route, reach out to a local artist to lead the class, and stock up on all the necessary supplies. Your artist just has to log in and lead class virtually.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. We are finally leaving behind the 18th century model of education where groups of students are expected to learn at a standard pace.

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2015

Year after year, MCON proves to be an unforgettable experience for artists, media, social entrepreneurs, corporate, nonprofit and public leaders, and passionate people from across the country. Business: Companies and leaders who are transforming old business models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2006

Our assignment was to write an essay on the topic of "Who's your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer, or musician) and why?" " Here are our posts: Britt Bravo: Art for Social Change Beth Kanter: Are You An Artist too? Dilara likes Alicia Keyes and views her as a role model.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Think about the tire-swing at the park, the basketball court made from old sneaker rubber, the community garden using the snow from an organic office paper shredder as insulation, the kids art project made from old bottle caps, etc. Just use your beard!".

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

This is the ninth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. We explore the possible programs.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

Now, a year later, I've seen the beginnings of how that question has borne out at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) , as well as hearing from folks around the museum industry about the interplay of exhibitions and events at their own institutions. And so, in this post, a few findings, and more questions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. I host dating games. time to step it up.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

After years of staging events, you may feel like there’s nothing you haven’t covered, from art auctions to wine tastings to trivia nights. Here are some to consider: Art: Art auctions serve a valuable purpose because they don’t just raise funds, they also spread awareness and appreciation of the works being auctioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

The art of storytelling though, and documenting an event or a slice of time is, of course, not restricted to bound pages. If we are successful, we’ll join over 15,000 artists, filmmakers, activists, and entrepreneurs who have collectively raised over $125 million using this innovative “crowd-funding” model. January 21.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

And it’s a sweet life to have been able to turn service into a supportive business model. Supporting art and artists, writers and books. The idea that pleasure is more deeply inherent in service than selfishness thrills me. Doing good is fun. My work as a Health Coach is deeply rewarding. And incredibly fun. Feeding people.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Product Marketing Manager for Arts and Cultural Solutions. Laura’s experience working at and serving on the board of multiple arts organizations around the country shape her insights into the nonprofit community. Use that valuable data to engage with them using the Amazon model: “If you like X, you might also like Y.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. You just need to show proof of membership. It was super cool.

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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 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. It couldn’t be an educational space with no works of art in it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. All of a sudden, I looked at my town as a place teeming with scientists in need of play.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

As a forest-dwelling hippie, I know very little about reality TV, but it''s clear that the model of "do an ambitious, wacky project really fast" is now tied closely to a slew of shows about everything from cooking to art-making. Sure, they might have decided to present an art object in a confrontational and opinionated way.

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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. While that was painful for the organizations involved, it also helped force the issue of whether participatory engagement could be core to a strong future business model for each organization or not.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

An exhibiting artist approached me recently at an evening event at the museum. I'm particularly curious about other cultural and community organizations--libraries, performing art spaces--and how hours impact their use and value. he said, "I have some feedback for you. He's right. They aren't. We're open Tuesday-Sunday, 11am-5pm.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Although he's only been there a few years he's helped to create all kinds of cool things like the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market --the largest international folk art market in the United States. Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. When I first started exploring the site, I assumed it was mostly a place for charismatic hipsters and a few star artists with enough social media savvy and clever video production capabilities to produce enticing pitches. Tags: marketing fundraising business models.

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Candid

APRIL 17, 2024

But in the wake of the pandemic, the “Great Resignation,” and waves of burnout , more nonprofits may be adopting co-leadership models as they experiment with new ways of working, sharing power, centering BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) leaders, and planning for succession. The concept of co-leadership is not new.

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