Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

Here's what happened: In 2010, amidst severe financial woes and declining audiences, the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA (MOCA), hired Jeffrey Deitch, a NYC gallery owner, to be their new director. Deitch--and to an even greater degree, Eli Broad--have expressed clearly that they want to expand the audience at MOCA.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum. Denver Zoo. These organizations based their campaign on a specific cause that would appeal to a mass audience. A young artist program you hope to get off the ground?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event. Collaborative programs with diverse groups bring in a variety of visitors causing new audiences to interact and connect.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" The model of State Department's Cultural Exchanges. We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues. We're working with most web savvy audience. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed.

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