Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

Imagine asking audience members to participate in your work. There are five female dancers, but there are also three audience members pulled up during the show to perform and to become metaphoric kisaeng. The audience participation was essential, not incidental, to the piece. Women from the audience were dressed up in costumes.

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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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Engaging Audiences at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. artist's influences and the exhibit, in the artist's own words. For example, YBCA's audiences loved having access to artists' own unfiltered words. They found that audiences wanted more education on using the particular app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. Participants had to answer these questions: -What were the objectives, audience, and how did integrate with your marketing or audience development plan?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. Chalk up my vote for 2011’s “Best Debut Artist” and “Best Supporting Actor.”. Can justice roll down like waters, propelled by viral? originality, empathy, integrity and courage.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

An exhibiting artist approached me recently at an evening event at the museum. Imagine if a theater or jazz club was only open during the day, and what conclusions one might draw about audience type and preferences based on that decision. Who would be "core" audiences if our institutions were open from 3-9pm instead of closing at 5?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this month, it's as if there was a subliminal email sent to a crew of bloggers in the arts suggesting a salon about audience diversity, and how/why to move in that direction. Diane Ragsdale responds with some thoughts on how funders could influence these issues, whether they should, and how organizations might respond.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2014

Over the past eight years, Michael has been specifically focused on the Arts and Cultural marketplace and is an active participant in delivering speaking engagements and contributing to trade publication articles. . How do you internally define arts and culture? It’s what we all are expected to do, isn’t it?

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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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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces.

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

I've learned so much from my dad about making art, putting on a great show, inviting audience participation , and navigating celebrity. When writing The Art of Relevance , I knew I wanted to share a bit of his story and the ways artists negotiate the relevance of their own work. The Beastie Boys name-checked them as influences.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

Although fundraising for arts organizations has unique challenges—like justifying the need to ask for support from donors for your arts and culture versus donating to the efforts of front-line workers—art in all forms is something that every community needs. This may be some of your lead performers, popular visual artists, or directors.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Growing a Strong Volunteer Culture Every year, thousands of new librarians and archivists graduate from MLS programs.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In his identity work , John Falk determined that people use cultural institutions to reflect their personal self-concept as learners, social leaders, spiritual pilgrims, hobbyists, and experience seekers. Tags: design Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion. They don't fit our expectations.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One worked closely with the AARP Livability Index team to meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Overall, this work has helped empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience members in their mission, and amplify their impact.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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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? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One helped the AARP Livability Index meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Overall, this work has helped empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience members in their mission, and amplify their impact.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website and app design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of non-profits, cultural institutions, science, health and wellness, and education.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers). It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Be a curator Make a Twitter list (hidden or not) of influencers like bloggers, journalists, news sites, and partner organizations who may share information that’s useful to your audience. Ask the audience Crowdsource your content: Have users post their own photos to Instagram using a hashtag you create, and repost the best submissions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

In 1990, educator and cultural critic Neil Postman described a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being?" The first-person narration allows the project to directly address the audience with deep questions without sounding unnatural. Welcome to Pine Point is not a museum project.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

Audience commentary, comfortable spaces for eating and talking, opportunities for amateurs to contribute to professional work: these are often considered intrusions into formal, classical settings for enjoyment of arts. From the Ancient Greeks through the 1800s, audiences were rowdy, engaged people.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

We’re not accustomed to the idea that they are enfranchised in the cultural process. I asked Shelley if she received any negative feedback from the artists about their work being treated like data rather than art. There’s a value of this exhibition that extends beyond the exhibition itself. This is a really unique experiment.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve long been interested in the intersection between maker culture and museums. One of the attractions for this collaboration was NYSCI’s diverse audience, many of whom were not part of the current Maker Faire community. This was the beginning of what I think was one of the primary benefits of Maker Faire to NYSCI.

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