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JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Be prepared to field some teacher questions. Create a shared Board for visitors to pin their favorite works of art or to share shots of themselves feeding their favorite animals. (In In exhibits and galleries where photography is permitted, of course!)

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Nina Simon posed this provocative question at a recent presentation , and it got me thinking about the differences between museum "users" and "visitors." During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab. Both are free for students.

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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. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. Let's start simple.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

But this week, two articles about art, in the NYT and the Washington Post Magazine respectively, called out to be combined into a post about the role of visitors in art interpretation. The NYT article is about a photography show by artist Thomas Struth at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Manhattan. We look for ourselves.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We saw that these artists were using the wall, then telling us about it on Flickr. If you look at the IMA (Indianapolis Museum of Art), they’ve got that going on in YouTube. Most of the stuff in our museum is public domain, and we have a very good policy that non-commerical photography is okay. Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question, sent in by a reader, is, "How can I combine the creative arts with social impact? Great question! Here are some examples of ways people have used the arts to create social impact: 50 Crows Social Change Photography "Images inspire people to act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Therefore, my new question in presentations about social media has been to ask: Is this new? Crowds create original works of knowledge or art. The Royal Opera used Twitter to crowdsource a new opera. Does being engaged in the creation of the work spur more appreciation for the art form and hopefully attention and participation?

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. As James comments in the attached podcast (scroll down), Shelley’s team did something that he thought was “too hard” to do in his work—tackle the effect of crowds on the subjective question of art evaluation. Because Click! isn’t a standard exhibition.

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